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 England. Whilst occupying this post he devoted himself to poetry, and composed many Sonnets, the MSS. of which are preserved in the University of Edinburgh, to which they were presented by Drummond of Hawthornden, who was his brother-in-law. The compositions were greatly admired by his contemporaries. Some of his Sonnets are printed in Nichols's Progresses of James I., vol. 1. There is no record of his death, but he was alive in 1609, when a grant of land was made to him in Ireland.

Admitted 4 January, 1814

Eldest son of the Rt. Hon. Henry Richard Vassall, Lord Holland. Before his admission he served in the Navy, and was present at the sieges of Cadiz, 1810, and Tarragona, 1813, and subsequently he entered the Army. In 1831 he entered Parliament for Calne, and in 1832 was made Surveyor-General of Ordnance. He began coin-collecting at an early age, and before his death had acquired one of the most valuable collections in existence (especially in the matter of Greek coins), of which he published an account in two volumes (1856 and 1862). After his death his collection was acquired by the Royal Museum in Berlin. He died in London 13 April, 1873.

Admitted 4 January, 1809.

Only son of the Hon. Henry Edward Fox, General, of Portland Place, co. Middlesex. Being a Whig he found little opportunity of preferment in the early part of his life, but in the formation of the Grey Ministry in 1830, he became Minister Plenipotentiary at Buenos Ayres, whence he removed to Rio de Janeiro in 1832, and to Washington in 1835, where he was influential in improving the relations, then disturbed, between the United States and this country. He was superseded in 1843, and died in Washington in 1846.

Admitted 1 November, 1842.

Fifth son of Edward Francis of Waltham Abbey, Essex. He was called to the Bar 21 Nov. 1845. In 1861 he was appointed Assistant-Judge and Registrar of the Supreme Court of the Levant in Constantinople; and Chief Judge in 1867. Two years later he was appointed British Commissioner in the International Commission on Judicial Reform in Egypt. He was knighted in 1868. He died 9 Aug. 1876.

Admitted 18 November, 1606

Son and heir of Martin Freeman of London. He married a relative of the Duke of Buckingham, and obtained a reversion of the Auditorship of Imprests, to which he succeeded in 1629. In 1633 he obtained the newly-created office of "Searcher and Sealer" of foreign hops. His latter days were spent in retirement, and just before his death he published a Tragedy entitled Imperiale, which obtained some approval. He had previously published two translations from Seneca—The Consolation to Marcia (1635), and The Book of the Shortness of Life (1663).