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Admitted 13 August, 1612.

In the Register he is described as "Lord John Gordon, Dean of Salisbury." He was the eldest son of Alexander Gordon, Bishop-elect of Galloway, and titular Archbishop of Athens. He was born 1 Sept. 1544. He was educated at the Universities of Paris and Orleans and resided chiefly abroad, where he acquired a great reputation as a classical and oriental scholar. He was appointed Dean of Salisbury by James I. on his accession to the throne, whereupon he took Holy Orders, and the appointment was confirmed in 1604. He was present at the Hampton Court Conference and took an active part in the debates. During his tenure of the deanery he produced a "large number of quartos full of quaint learning, protestant fervour, controversial elegiacs, and prophetic anticipations, drawn from the wildest etymologies." It was doubtless to his position as an eminent "man of the time" that his admission to the Inn, though in Orders, was due, causâ honoris. He died 3 Sept. 1619.

Admitted 17 September, 1736.

Second son of the Hon. George Gore, one of His Majesty's Judges in Ireland, and of Newtown Gore, Leitrim. He was educated at Dublin, graduating B.A. 1737. He returned to Ireland in 1742, and was called to the Irish Bar. In 1745 he was elected M.P. for Jamestown, co. Leitrim, was appointed Solicitor-General in 1760, and Chief Justice of the King's Bench and a Privy Councillor 1764. Two years later he was raised to the peerage as Baron Annaly of Tenelick. In the House of Peers he some time acted as Speaker in the absence of the Lord Chancellor. He died 3 April, 1784.

GORGES, RICHARD, second BARON GORGES of DUNDALK.

Admitted 4 August, 1669.

He is described in the Register as "Richardus Dominus Gorges, Baro de Dundalk in regno Hyberniæ." He was the son of Sir Edward Gorges who was made a Baronet by James I. 25 Nov. 1612, and afterwards created a Peer of Ireland by the title of Baron Gorges of Dundalk. He married Bridget, daughter of Roger Kingsmill of Sidmanton, Hampshire, but died without surviving issue, when the Barony and Baronetcy became extinct.

Admitted 27 June, 1810.

Second son of Mumbee (Munbee) Goulburn of Portland Place. He was born in 1787. He was brought up in the Army, from which he retired in consequence of writing a satirical poem The Blueviad, in which he reflected on the character of some of his brother officers. He was called to the Bar 9 June, 1815, and made Serjeant-at-Law 1829. He was a brother of Henry Goulburn, the well-known Statesman, whose influence advanced him in his profession, and he became a Welsh Judge and Recorder of Leicester, Boston and Lincoln. From 1835—37 he represented Leicester in Parliament, and in 1842 was appointed a Commissioner in Bankruptcy. He died in London 24 Aug. 1868.

Besides the Satire above mentioned Goulburn wrote the Pursuits of Fashion (1809), another satirical poem, and a novel entitled Edward de Montfort (1812).