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The Daily Dispatch: November 9, 1860., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1860., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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are proud to do them reverence. Some of the brightest lights of the English bar and Parliament were men of humble extraction. Lord Eldon was the son of a barge maker; Lord Stovell, of a small coal dealer; Lord Tenteeden, of a barber; Lord Gifford, prior to his being called to the bar, was the poor clerk of a solicitor; Sir Jno. Williams, one of the Judges of the Queen's Bench, was the son of a very poor horse dealer in Yorkshire; Lord Truro (who married a first cousin of Queen Victoria,) was son of a very poor man in Cornwall; Mr. Baron Gurney, son of a poor lady in London; Lord Campbell, the present Lord Chancellor, was for many years reporter to the Morning Chronicle; Lord St. Leonards was son of a barber; Chief Justice Saunders was a beggar boy; Lord Kenyon, boot-black and errand boy; Lord Hardwick, an errand boy; Geo. Canning, son of a poor strolling player. Hundreds of others, titled and untitled, have risen from obscurity to political and judicial eminence in Great Britain.