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 leader's disgrace became Lord-Lieutenant in that country. He ruled the country with success, and was made K.G. in 1597, and Earl of Devon in 1604. Two years later he contracted a marriage with the divorced wife of Robert, Lord Rich, the Stella of Sidney's Sonnets, contrary to the canon law, which attended the King and Queen, and led to mortifications which embittered and shortened his life. He died of a fever 3 April, 1606, having lived, it was said, "too long for his credit." His arms are in the Middle Temple Hall. His death is celebrated by (q.v.) in a poem entitled Fame's Memorial.



Admitted 12 June, 1793.

Only son of William Boaden, of Penrhyn, Cornwall. He was born at Whitehaven 23 May, 1762. His first employment was journalism, and though he entered himself of the Middle Temple, he continued that employment, combining it with play-writing. He edited a newspaper called The Oracle. His first dramatic piece was entitled Osmyn and Daraxa, a Musical Romance (1793), which was followed by Fontainville Forest, The Secret Tribunal, The Italian Monk, The Maid of Bristol, and others. In later life he employed himself in biography, writing the lives of Mrs. Siddons, Kemble, and Mrs. Jordan. He also attempted novel- writing, but with less success, and he was a keen Shakespearian critic. He died 16 Feb. 1839.



Admitted 25 January, 1792.

Eldest son of James Bolland, of Cheapside. He was educated under Dr. Valpy, at Reading, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he sent in the Seatonian prize poem three years in succession. After his call, on 24 April, 1801, he practised at the Bar with great success, and was appointed Recorder of Reading, 1817, and in 1829 raised to the Bench as a Baron of the Exchequer. This position he resigned, through failing health, in 1839, and died the following year, 14 May. He was an enthusiastic student of English literature, though he published but little. He possessed a fine library, and was one of the originators of the Roxburghe Club.



Admitted 27 October, 1772.

Second son of George Bond, of Bachford, Somerset. He was admitted at the same time as his elder brother Thomas, called to the Bar 12 Feb. 1779, and became famous as a criminal pleader, particularly at the Surrey Sessions, where his influence over Surrey jurymen became so absolute, that they generally found for "Serjeant Bond and Costs." He became a Serjeant in 1786. He died 19 March, 1796.



Admitted 28 November, 1722.

Son and heir of James Booth, of Theobalds, Hertfordshire. He was born at St. Germain-en-Laye, in France, where his father, a Roman Catholic Jacobite, then resided. As a Roman Catholic himself he was debarred from practising at the Bar, and therefore took a licence for Conveyancing, in which art he became the leading practitioner of the day. He left no treatise on the subject, but his conveyances were often copied and used as precedents. He died 14 Jan. 1778.