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Admitted 22 January, 1763.

Only son of John Wilson of Howe, near Kendal, Westmoreland, where he was born 6 Aug. 1741. He graduated at Cambridge where he was Senior Wrangler in 1761. He was called to the Bar 7 Feb. 1766, and soon obtained a large practice in the Northern Circuit, where he was known to his brother members, (q.v.) (afterwards Lord Ashburton), and  (Lord Eldon) (q.v.). In Nov. 1786 was selected as a Judge of the Common Pleas and knighted, and in 1792 made a Commissioner of the Great Seal. He died at Kendal IS Oct. 1793.

Admitted 4 February, 1602-3.

"Son and heir of Thomas Windebancke of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields," where he was baptized 21 Aug. 1582. In 1604 he obtained a grant of a clerkship of the Signet to which he succeeded some twenty years afterwards. In 1632 he was selected as the colleague of Sir John Coke in the Secretaryship of State, and knighted. He became very unpopular in this capacity, and in 1640, being suspected of treasonous correspondence, fled to France, where he died 1 Sept. 1646, having previously been received into the Roman Church.

Admitted 15 May, 1829.

Eldest son of Charles Windeyer of Sydney, New South Wales. He was born in London 10 Aug. 1806, and educated partly in France. He was called to the Bar 2 May, 1834, and occupied chambers in Pump Court till he emigrated to Australia in 1835. He there became leader of the Sydney Bar, and in 1843 a representative of the Legislative Council, where he had as a colleague Robert Lowe, afterwards Lord Sherbrooke, and made himself conspicuous as a reformer and thorough-going economist—"the Joseph Hume of the Council," as he has been called. He was very active also as an agricultural pioneer, and assisted in the introduction of machinery and viticulture into the Colony. He died 2 Dec. 1847.

Admitted 14 August, 1600.

Son and heir of Henry, Lord Windsor, and nephew of Frederick, the fourth Baron, who were both members of the Inn. He was created K.B. in June, 1610, and was Rear-Admiral of the Fleet to fetch home Prince Charles from Spain in 1623.

The Arms of Edward, the third Baron, who distinguished himself at the siege of St. Quentin, are in the Hall, but there is no record of his admission as it probably took place in the period for which the records are wanting.