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Admitted 29 May, 1767.

Eldest son of William Caldecott of Rugby. He was called to the Bar 8 Feb. 1771, was appointed Reader at the Inn in 1807, and Treasurer in 1814. He was a Fellow of New College, Oxford, where he graduated B.C.L. in 1770. Though he was a leading member of the Oxford Circuit, and known as the continuator of Burrow's Settlement Cases (1776—1785), he is best remembered as a book collector and student of Shakespearian literature. In 1832 he published privately the Plays of Hamlet and As you like it, intended to be the beginning of a new edition of Shakespeare, but it was not continued. His collection of Shakespearian Quartos was bequeathed to the Bodleian Library, and a description of his other rarest books is to be found in the Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. I., N.S., Part 1 (1834). He became a Bencher of the Inn in 1804. He died at Dartford in May, 1833.



Admitted 11 December, 1752.

Eldest son of Charles Caldwell of Dublin, Solicitor to the Customs. Born 19 Dec. 1733. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1760, but devoted his attention chiefly to literature. In 1770 he published Observations on the Public Buildings of Dublin, and in 1804 an Account of the Escape of James Stewart, commonly called Athenian Stewart, from the Turks. He died 2 July, 1808.



The Registers of the Inn do not date back to the time of this Judge, He is said, however, in the Year Books, to have been called a Serjeant from the Inn, in Trinity Term, 18 Edward IV. (1478). He was raised to a Judicial Seat in the Common Pleas, 31 Jan. 1487.



Admitted 16 February, 1606-7.

Second son of Sir James Calthorpe of Cockthorpe, Norfolk, where he was born. He was called to the Bar 13 Feb. 1615, and in the same year succeeded to the family estates. He acquired a large practice, and was appointed Solicitor-General to Queen Henrietta Maria. He was Counsel in the famous case of Sir Thomas Darnell, and in the proceedings against the Seven Members in 1630. In 1635 he was made Recorder of London, and was shortly afterwards knighted. He was chosen Autumn Reader at the Inn in 1636, but did not read on account of the Plague. He was in the same year Attorney-General of the Court of Wards and Liveries. He died in August, 1637.

He wrote (for his own use) a treatise on the Liberties, Usages, and Customs of the City of London, published after his death (1642), also Reports of Cases touching the Customs and Liberties of the City of London, published (with the previous treatise annexed) 1655 and 1670.



Admitted 3 August, 1606.

He is entered as "Thomas Cambell, Knight, Alderman of the City of London." He was descended of an old Scotch family, and was the son of