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Admitted 13 January, 1715-6.

Son and heir of Thomas Paltock of Enfield, Middlesex. He is said to have become an "attorney" and to have resided in Clements' Inn; but he is now remembered only as the author of The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, published anonymously in 1751, a work which obtained much popularity, and the unrestrained enconiums of such critics as Coleridge, Southey, Lamb and Scott. Some other writings are attributed to him, but they are of inferior merit. He died in Lambeth 20 March, 1767.

Admitted 1 May, 1806.

Eldest son of the Rev. Edward Parry of Mold, co. Flint, where he was born 6 April, 1786. He was called to the Bar 12 June, 1812, and practised for some time on the Oxford Circuit and the Chester Great Sessions, but finally took to literature and established the Cambro-Briton, a magazine for the discussion of Welsh history and antiquities. He also edited the Transactions of the Cymmrodorion Society, of which he was one of the founders, in 1820. He published Essays on the Navigation, the Manners, and Customs of the Ancient Britons, and in 1824 a collection of Welsh Biographies under the title of The Cambrian Plutarch. He was killed in an unfortunate brawl at Pentonville 12 Feb. 1825.

Admitted 28 April, 1838.

Eldest son of (q.v.) of Mold, co. Flint, the Welsh antiquary. He was born in London 24 Jan. 1816. He was called to the Bar 9 June, 1843, became a Serjeant-at-Law in 1856, and acquired a great reputation as an advocate, and was engaged in many of the most remarkable trials of his time, as the trial of the Mannings in 1849, of Muller in 1864, in the prosecution of Overend and Gurney in 1869, and the Tichborne Case in 1873. As a politician he was an advanced Liberal, and sympathised with the Chartist movement; but he never succeeded in entering Parliament. In 1878 he was elected a Bencher of his Inn. He died in Kensington 10 Jan. 1880.

Admitted 28 May, 1812.

Second son of the Rev. Henry Patteson of Drinkstone, near Woolpit, Suffolk. He was born at Coney Weston, Suffolk, on 11 Feb. 1790. He was called to the Bar 6 July, 1821. At the time of his call he had acquired a great reputation as a special pleader, and, joining the Northern Circuit, his abilities became so speedily acknowledged that on 12 Nov. 1830, after only nine years' practice, he was raised to a place on the King's Bench, with the honour of knighthood. This position he held with great distinction till 1852, when, from increasing deafness, he felt it his duty to retire. He died on 28 June, 1861. Sir John Patteson edited the 5th edition of Sir Edmund Saunders's Reports (1824).