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 of the time, and wrote for German periodicals. On his return to England he became a contributor to the British and Foreign Quarterly Review, and the Metropolitan Magazine. He was called to the Bar 3 May, 1839. In 1837 he was appointed Clerk to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and in 1843 Registrar, which position he held till 1887. In 1840 he joined the staff of the Times, dealing with questions of foreign policy, and in 1855 became Editor of the Edinburgh Review, which he conducted for forty years. He was a member of many learned societies at home and abroad, and a C.B., and in 1869 the University of Oxford conferred upon him the degree of D.C.L. He died at his residence in Hampshire 21 Oct. 1895.

His published writings are: Graphidæ, or Characteristics of Painters (1838); Royal and Republican France, a series of Essays (1872); and Petrarch (1878); but he edited many well-known works, as De Tocqueville's Democracy, and Whitelock's (q.v.) Swedish Journal.

Admitted 25 November, 1713.

Son and heir of Richard Reeve of New Windsor, Berkshire. He was admitted from the Inner Temple, where he had been called to the Bar in 1698. After practising at the Bar for twenty years he was made a King's Counsel, and in 1720 was elected a Bencher of the Inn. In the same year he supported a bill of attainder as counsel for the Crown against Bishop Atterbury. In 1722 he was appointed Reader, and in 1728 Treasurer of the Inn. In 1733 he was constituted a Judge of the Common Pleas with the honour of knighthood, and three years later was advanced to the head of the court, but died within a year, 13 Jan. 1737.

Admitted 11 May, 1776.

Only son of John Reeves of Castle Street, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. He was called to the Bar 18 June, 1779, elected a Bencher in 1824, and appointed Reader in 1827. In the year of his call he was appointed a Commissioner of Bankrupts, and in 1791 Chief Justice of Newfoundland. On his return he founded an "Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Levellers," etc., and in 1800 was appointed King's Printer. From 1803-14 he held the office of Superintendent of Aliens. He died 7 Aug. 1829.

Mr. Reeves was the author of numerous publications, of which the following is a list: An Inquiry into the Mature of Property and Estates (1779); Chart of Penal Laws. 2 sheets (1779); History of the English Law from the Saxons to the Reign of Elizabeth (1784—1829); History of the Government of Newfoundland (1793); The Male-Contents, a Letter to F. Plowden (1794); ''The Grounds of Aid. Wilkes and Boydell's Petition (1795); Thoughts on the English Government, in Four Letters (1795—1800); A Collation of the Hebrew and Greek Texts of the Psalms (1800); Considerations on the Coronation Oath (1801); The Case of Conscience Solved (1801); The Book of Common Prayer, with Preface and Notes (1801); The Holy Bible (1802); The New Testament in Greek (1803); Psalterium Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Hebraicum (1804); Proposals for a Bible Society on a New Plan (1805); Observations on the Catholic Bible (1807); Two Tracts showing that Americans born before the Independence are not Aliens'' (1814).