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Admitted 20 January, 1843.

Son of Henry Karslake of Queen Square, Bloomsbury. He was born at Croydon. He was called to the Bar 30 Jan. 1846, created a Queen's Counsel in 1861, and in the same year elected a Bencher of the Inn. He was appointed Reader in 1864, and elected Treasurer of the Inn in 1872. In 1866 he became Solicitor-General and was knighted, subsequently sitting for Andover and Huntingdon. He was Solicitor-General again in Mr. Disraeli's Ministry of 1874, but through loss of sight resigned his position in 1875, and was made a Privy Councillor in the following year. He died in London in 1881.

He was a very able speaker and debater; but his sole literary achievement was a revision of Dr. Charles Palk Collyns' Notes on the Chase of the Wild Deer in Devon, published in 1862.

Admitted 16 May, 1804.

Only son of Thomas Kemp of Coneyboroughs, near Lewes, Sussex (once M.P. for Lewes). He graduated at Cambridge B.A. in 1805 and M.A. in 1810. In 1811 he was returned to Parliament for Lewes, but in the following year retired, and became a preacher, and though he was again returned in 1823 he took little part in politics. He had a passion for building, and succeeding in 1811 to part of the manor of Brighthelmstone on the eastern part of Brighton begun building there the town known by his name, Kemptown. He died in Paris 20 Dec. 1844.

Admitted 10 August, 1615.

He is described in the Register as "John, Earl of Cassilis, Lord Kenedy," and was the son of Gilbert, the fourth Earl. He was for a short time (1598) Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, but the history of his life seems to be a series of family brawls and squabbles, culminating in the murderous outrages known as the "Ayrshire Tragedies," 1601—11. He died in Oct. 1615, the year of his admission to the Inn. He joined the Inn on the same day as Lord (q.v.), and was admitted doubtless causâ honoris, though it is difficult, looking back upon the circumstances of his career, to fee the justice of his claim.

Admitted 21 April, 1826.

Son of the Hon. Thomas Kenyon, of the Middle Temple and Pradoc, Salop, and grandson of Lord Kenyon (q.v.). Chief Justice. He was educated at Charterhouse and Oxford, where he became a Fellow of All Souls, and D.C.L. (1836). He was called to the Bar 23 May, 1834. From 1840 to 1859 he acted as Judge and Assessor of the Chancellor's Court of the University, and in 1843 was Vinerian Professor of Law there. In 1842 he was appointed Recorder of Oswestry, and in 1862 became a Queen's Counsel and a Bencher of his Inn. He was appointed Reader at the Inn in 1865, and Treasurer eight years later. In 1871 he succeeded to the Chairmanship of Quarter Sessions in Shropshire, which position he held till his death 17 April, 1880.