Barrister Gallery

Saturday Night in the Vale, 1928-9. Artist: Henry Tonks

Saturday Night in the Vale, 1928-9. Also known as ?An Evening in the Vale?. We see George Moore (1852-1933), in the foreground reading aloud from his manuscript of Aphrodite in Aulis, a novel which he published in 1930. The audience consists of, from left to right, St John Hutchinson (1884?1942) Philip Wilson Steer (1860-1942) (in the arm-chair), Tonks (standing by the mantel- piece) and Mrs Mary St John Hutchinson (1889-1977). The painting is held in the Tate, London. From The Studio Volume 105. [The Offices of the Studio Ltd., London, 1933]

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Spencer Perceval, c1800, (c1884). Creator: Unknown

Spencer Perceval, c1800, (c1884). Spencer Perceval (1762-1812) British statesman educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Studied at Lincoln's Inn, became King's Counsel in 1796. Served as Prime Minister from October 1809 during reign of George III until his assassination in May 1812. From "Leaders of the Senate: A Biographical History of the Rise and Development of the British Constitution, Vol. I.", by Alexander Charles Ewald, F.S.A. [William Mackenzie, London, Edinburgh & Berlin]

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Richard Everard Webster, (1842-1915), British barrister, politician and judge, 1896

Richard Everard Webster, British barrister, politician and judge. Webster (1842-1915) became a QC in 1878. In 1890 he was lead counsel for The Times in the Parnell inquiry. He served as a Conservative MP for Launceston (1885) and the Isle of Wight (1885-1890) and was Attorney General in Conservative administrations between 1885 and 1900. He was raised to the peerage in 1900 and appointed Master of the Rolls before being elevated to Lord Chief Justice of England later the same year, a post he held until 1913. From The Life and Times of The Right Honourable The Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., published by J. S. Virtue & Co. Ltd., 1896

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