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Admitted 19 November, 1825.

Third son of William Mackworth Praed, K.C., of Teignmouth, Devon, Serjeant-at-Law. He was educated at Eton, where he won prizes for English verse, and edited the College newspaper, and at Cambridge, where he also took many prizes, and was bracketed first in the Classical Tripos. He was called to the Bar 29 May, 1829. He was elected a Fellow of Trinity in 1827, and won the Seatonian Prize in 1830. In the same year he entered Parliament for the borough of St. Germans, and took part in the Reform Bill debates. In 1835 he was returned for Great Yarmouth, and in 1837 for Aylesbury. He was much interested in educational reform, and was instrumental in establishing the national system under the Committee of Council in 1839. He died 15 July, 1839.

A collection of his Poems was published in 1864, edited by his friend, the Rev. Derwent Coleridge, and of his Essays in 1887 by Henry Morley.

Admitted 14 November, 1828.

Second son of Francis Prendergast of Dublin, where he was born 7 March, 1808, and where his father was Registrar of the Court of Chancery. He was educated at Reading under Dr. Valpy, and at Dublin,- where he graduated in 1825. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1830. In 1836 he became agent for Lord Clifden's estates, which led him to make genealogical researches, which culminated in the production of a history of The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland (1865). He was also the author of The Tory War in Ulster, privately printed in 1868, and of many other contributions to Irish history; and, in conjunction with Dr. Russell, he edited for the Master of the Rolls the Calendar of State Papers relating to Ireland in the Reign of James I., published from 1872 to 1880. He died in Dublin 6 Feb. 1893.

Admitted 14 April, 1840.

Fourth son of Golden Nehemiah Prentice of Rayleigh, Essex. He was called to the Bar 5 May, 1843, became a Bencher 20 Nov. 1866, Reader in 1871, and Treasurer in 1881. He was Recorder of Maidstone in 1879, and for some time Examiner in Common Law to the Inns of Court. He was appointed a County Court Judge in 1884. He died 17 Dec. 1893.

He was the author of a treatise on an Action at Law (1877); The Common Law Procedure Act (1882); of a Short Practice of the Criminal Law (1882), and editor of Abbott on Shipping (1881); Pratt's Highways (1881); Russell on Crimes (1877); and Archbold's Practice (1855—79).

Admitted 25 March, 1613-4.

His parentage is not given in the Register; but he was a cadet of the family of Preston of Whitehill, Edinburgh, who had acquired the favour of King James VI., who knighted him and made him a gentleman of his bedchamber. He attended James into England, and became one of the Knights of the Bath at his Coronation, 25 July, 1603. In 1607 he was raised to the Peerage as