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Admitted 20 January, 1836.

Fourth son of Paynton Pigott of Stainsby Covant, Basingstoke. He was trailed to the Bar 3 May, 1839. In 1854 he became Counsel to the Inland Revenue Department and in 1856 was made Serjeant-at-Law. The following year he was chosen Recorder of Hereford, and in 1863 was appointed Baron of the Exchequer and knighted. As a judge he obtained a reputation for strict impartiality, and he took a great interest in many social questions. He died 28 April, 1875, from a fall from his horse. He published in 1846 Reports of Cases in the Common Pleas on Appeal from Revising Barristers.

Son of Humphrey Plowden of Plowden, in Shropshire, where he was born in 1518. His name does not appear on the Register of Admissions, but he was Reader in 1557 and again in 1560, and Treasurer from 1561 to 1567. During this time the building of the Hall was begun, the management of which was continued in his hands till its completion in 1570. Previous to his admission to the Temple he studied philosophy and law both at Oxford and Cambridge. He was made Serjeant in 1558, but being a Roman Catholic was never raised to the judicial bench. He died in 1585 and was buried in the Temple Church, where a monument erected to his memory declares him to have been "in juris Anglicani scientiâ facile princeps." His great reputation in this respect depends chiefly upon his Commentaries or Reports, which have been the theme of eulogists from Coke to modern critics. They were published with the following title: Certayne Cases Reportes per Edmonde Plowden. Folio, London, 1571 [subsequently reprinted, with the Queries, and translated into English, with notes by Mr. Bromley, in 1761, 1779]; Queries, or a Moot Book for Young Students [published separately] (1662).

Admitted (probably) 3 June, 1515.

Second son of Walter Pollard of Plymouth. He was Autumn Reader at the Inn in 1535, and was made a Serjeant-at-Law in 1547, which dignity he relinquished in 1550 to become Vice-President of the Council of the Welsh Marches. He sat in Parliament for Oxfordshire in 1553 and for Chippenham in 1555, and during that period was chosen Speaker of the House and was knighted. He died Aug. 1557. He had a great reputation as a lawyer.

Son of Robert Pollard of Roborough near Torrington, Devon. He was Reader of the Inn in 1502, being the "third upon record of that quality in the House." Two years later he became Serjeant, with nine others, and on this occasion these "held a mighty feast at Lambeth in the Archbishop's Hall there, and after that entertained the king (Henry VII.) at a breakfast, with all the Inns of Courts, to the number of a thousand persons." In 1507 he became King's Serjeant and in 1514, "being now of great reputation," was advanced to the Bench of Common Pleas. He retired from the Bench in 1526 and died in 1540. He is recorded amongst Prince's Worthies of Devon.