Law reformer. Born in Frith Street. Solicitor-General 1806. Caroline's Miscellany has done the research on his campaign to reduce the number of crimes with a mandatory death penalty. Kept 2 pet leeches. Suffering intense grief he committed suicide, at 21 Russell Square, a few days after his wife's death.
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Sir Samuel Romilly
Sir Samuel Romilly, Knt., Solicitor-General 1806, occupied chambers here, 177...
Law lecturer in the Polytechnic of Central London, killed, aged 29, in the Lo...
Appointed to the High Court Bench (Queen's Bench Division) in 1980; a Lord Ju...
Novelist. Born at Wood Farm, West Bradenham, Norfolk. At the age of nineteen ...
