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 Secretary to the County Council Union in 1889 and Lecturer to the Financial Reform Union. He wrote many treatises and delivered hundreds of lectures on the political, social, and fiscal questions of the day. He died at Highgate 17 Jan. 1892.

Admitted 3 November, 1729.

Second son of the Rev. Stephen Norris of Barton, Norwich, where he was horn 17 Nov. 1711. He was educated at Norwich Grammar School and at Cambridge. He was called to the Bar 28 Nov. 1735. Losing his only son, John, who was also a member of the Inn and a young man of great promise, Norris devoted himself thenceforth to the study of the genealogy and antiquities of his native county. The results of his researches have never been published, but are preserved in MS. in the library of Mr. Walter Rye, by whom a catalogue of them was drawn up and privately printed in 1889.

Admitted 14 March, 1597-8.

Third son of Henry, Baron Norris of Rycote. At the time of his admission he was "Governour for the Queen, of Ostend in Flanders," previous to which he had served with distinction in the Low Countries with Sir Philip Sidney, and was knighted by Leicester at Utrecht in 1586. He remained Govemour of Ostend till 1599. He died in October, 1603, and there is a monument to his memory in Westminster Abbey.

Admitted 3 February, 1592-3.

Fifth son of Henry, Baron Norris of Rycote. In the Register he is described simply as " Thomas Norris, Knight," his admission being on the same day as that of (q.v.) and  (q.v.). He was then over from Ireland, where he had been engaged in the government of that country and in strengthening its defences. In 1597 he succeeded his brother Sir John as President of Munster. Two years later he died of a wound received in a skirmish with the Irish. He was a man of literary tastes, and a friend and patron of Edmund Spenser.

Admitted 27 November, 1655.

Second son of Sir Dudley North, K.B., of Catledge (Kirtling), Cambridgeshire (afterwards fourth Baron North). He was born at Kirtling, Cambridgeshire, 1637. The story of his admission to the Inn is thus told in his Life by (q.v.). "When Sir Dudley North, his lordship's father, carried him to his brother-in-law, then Treasurer of the Middle Temple [Chaloner Chute], to be admitted, he treated hard with him about the fine of admission, which is in the Treasurer's power to tax, and he may use any one well if he pleaseth. Mr. Treasurer asked Sir Dudley what he was willing to give, and (the common fine being five pounds) he answered, three pounds ten shillings. 'Well,' said the Treasurer, 'lay down the money.' Which being done, he called for the