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 1857, and Treasurer in 1862. He sat in Parliament for the borough of Truro, but took little part in the debates of the House; and in 1865 was appointed A Justice of the Common Pleas by Lord Westbury (q.v.), at the same time receiving the Order of the Coif. In the following year he was knighted. He held his Judgeship till 1872, when he was made a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. He resigned this office in 1881, and died in May, 1891, at his residence, Park Lane, London.

There is no record of his admission (which was doubtless during the period covered by the lost volume of the Records, 1524—1550), but his Arms are up in the large south window of the Hall, with the superscription—"Thomas Smith Miles cum Regis Edwardi sexti tum Elizabethe Reginæ consiliarius ac primi nominis secretarius," and there is a portrait of him (supposed replica by Holbein, set. 33), in the possession of the Society. He was the son of John Smith of Saffron Walden, where he was born 23 Dec. 1513. In 1525 he was at St. John's College, Cambridge, whence he removed next year to Queen's, where he became King's Scholar, and subsequently Fellow. He graduated in 1533, and became public reader or professor, lecturing on Philosophy and Greek. In 1540 he went to pursue his studies abroad at Paris, Orleans, and Padua, and on his return was appointed Regius Professor of Civil Law at Cambridge, and became ordained. The rest of his life must be briefly summarised. From 1548 to 1549, and again from 1572 to 1574, he filled the office of Secretary of State, and in 1549 he was sent as Ambassador to Germany. As a classical scholar he was the rival of his friend Sir John Cheke,and he was also an accomplished "physician, mathematician, astronomer, architect, historian, and orator." He wrote a tract on the reform of the Greek and English languages, another, in the form of a dialogue, on the question of the marriage of Queen Elizabeth, and a translation of some of the Psalms; but his chief work is one entitled De Republica Anglorum, or The maner of Governement or policie of the Realm of England,first printed in 1583, and many times republished. He died at Theydon Mount, Essex, 12 Aug. 1577.

Admitted 4 February, 1824.

Second son of William Snagg of the Isle of St. Vincent, where he was born 1806. After his call, 6 Feb. 1829, he settled in Grenada, where he was made Attorney-General in 1842. He was subsequently Chief Justice of Antigua and Montserrat, and finally Chief Justice of Demarara from 1868 to his death 17 May, 1878. He was knighted in 1859.

Admitted 9 August, 1567.

Son and heir of George Snigge of Bristol, where he was born about 1545, and of which city he was subsequently Recorder. He was called to the Bar 17 June, 1575, and was Reader in 1589 and 1598, and Treasurer in 1602. He became a Serjeant-at-Law in 1604, and in the same year a Baron of the Exchequer. After holding this office for thirteen years, he died 11 Nov. 1617.