biography
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| lived:
| (1824–83)
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| biography:
| Judge, born in London, UK. He studied at University College London, and was called to the bar in 1847. He served as a Liberal MP (1868–73), solicitor general (1871–3), and then as Master of the Rolls (1873–83). He gave many judicial opinions of continuing value, and made important contributions to legal principle by reshaping older doctrines, especially of equity. |
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