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Admitted 11 January, 1786.

"Only son of Henry Sheares of Cork" (banker). Such is the entry in the Register, but for "only" it seems clear that "eldest" should be read, for he had several younger brothers, with the fourth of whom, John, he became involved in the conspiracies of the United Irishmen, and in the plot for corrupting the Army, for which he was arrested 21 May, 1798, brought to trial, condemned and executed (with the same brother) on the 14 July following. He was originally in the Army, but adopting the legal profession, was entered at the Inn and returned to Ireland in 1790.

Admitted 6 November, 1862.

Eldest son of Sir William Shee, Judge. He was educated at Cambridge, where he graduated LL.B. in 1866. He was called to the Bar 30 April, 1867. He became Recorder of Hythe in 1883. He published in 1886 a paper entitled A Remonstrance in reply to an attack upon his father by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy in a book entitled The League of the North and South. He died at Felixtowe [sic] 15 Dec. 1894

Admitted 21 December, 1820.

Second son of the Rev. Leonard Shelford, B.D., Rector of North Tuddenham, Norfolk. He was born on 26 July, 1795. He was called to the Bar 9 Feb. 1827, and died on 17 March, 1864. At the time of his death he was senior Captain of the Hall, and it was recorded that he bad "lived the last forty years of his life in Chambers, scarcely dining a hundred yards from the entrance to the Temple during that time."

He was the author of the following treatises: Law concerning Lunatics, etc. (1833); Real Property Statutes (1835); Law of Mortmain and Charitable Uses (1836); Acts for the Commutation of Tithes (1836); Law of Wills (1838); Law of Marriage, Divorce, and Registration (1841); Law of Railways (1845); General Highway Act (1845); Bankruptcy Law Consolidation Act, 1849 (1849); Statutes for Amending the Practice in Chancery (1852); Law of Copyholds (1853); Law relating to Probate and Legacy Duties (1855); Statutes for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors (1856); Probates and Administrations in County Courts (1858); Law of Joint Stock Companies (1863). Mr. Shelford edited a second edition of Broom's County Court Practice in 1857, a fifth edition of Crabb's Conveyancer's Assistant (1860), and most of his own works went through several editions.

Admitted 23 November, 1620.

Son and heir of Philip Sheppard of Horsley in Gloucestershire. He was called to the Bar 19 June, 1629. He is said to have owed his fortune to Cromwell, who made him one of the Clerks of the Upper Bench. In 1656 he became Serjeant-at-Law, and prepared the charters granted to certain corporations. In 1659 he was appointed puisne judge of the County Palatine of Lancaster. He was the author of a large number of legal treatises, including An Epitome of all the Laws of this Nation (1656); but the work by which he is