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Admitted 29 October, 1602.

On the Register the entry is simply "Henry, Lord Mordaunt." He was the son of Lewis Mordaunt, third Baron, whose Arms are in the Hall, the grandfather of the celebrated Henry Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough {d. 1697). He was summoned to Parliament in 1601, but in 1604 was committed to the Tower on suspicion of implication in the Gunpowder Plot. He died in 1608

Admitted 3 July, 1503.

Son of Sir John Mordaunt of Turvey, who was probably a member of the Inn, as this John is entered as "John Mordaunt, junior." He was a courtier of Henry VIII., who knighted him in 1520, and he attended Henry at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. In 1526 he was made a Privy Councillor and in 1530 took part in the inquisition into the property of Cardinal Wolsey. In 1532 he was made a Baron and in the following year assisted at the reception of Anne Boleyn and subsequently took part in her trial. He lived through the reigns of Edward VI. and Mary, and died 1562.

MORE. See MOORE.

There is no record of his admission, but he was Reader in 1553. He belonged to a family settled at Kingsthorpe, Northants, where he was born. He was made Serjeant-at-Law in 1555 and a justice of the Queen's Bench in 1558. He survived his appointment but seven months, dying the same year.

Admitted 20 June, 1744.

Second son of Charles Morgan of Kilcolgan, Galway. He was the author of several plays which, though of no particular merit, were placed on the stage and had some success, through the influence of the actor Spranger Barry, a friend of the author. The chief of these were Philoclea, a Tragedy, taken from Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, and Florizel and Perdita, from the Winters Tale. Morgan is credited also with several poems of a satirical nature. He died in 1762.

Admitted 17 August, 1833.

Second son of George Morley of St. Michael's Place, Brompton. He was called to the Bar 12 Jan. 1838. He first distinguished himself by his study of Eastern manuscripts, a catalogue of which he published in 1854 for the Royal Asiatic Society, of which he was a trustee and for some time librarian. In 1848 he edited for the Society of Oriental Texts, The History of the Atabeks of Syria and Persia. In the legal world he is best known by his Digest of Cases decided in the Supreme Courts of India (1849-50). He died in London 21 May, 1860.