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 Thomas Cambell of Fulsham, Norfolk. He was Sheriff of London in 1600, and Lord Mayor in 1609. He was knighted by James I., 26 July, 1603. He died 13 Feb. 1613, and was buried in the church of St. Olave, Jewry, where there is a laudatory inscription to his memory. He left a sum of money to the poor of certain parishes for the purchase of coals. His son, Sir James, was also Lord Mayor of London, and distinguished by his magnificent bequests to charitable purposes.



Admitted 19 January, 1750.

He is described on the Register as "the 'second' son of John Campbell of Comb Bank, in the county of Kent," but this must mean the second surviving son, his next elder brother having been killed in the Battle of Laffeldt in 1747. He was called to the Bar 24 Jan. 1754, appointed Lent Reader in 1796, and elected Treasurer in 1803. He acquired his courtesy title on the accession of his father to the Dukedom of Argyll, by the death of the third Duke in 1761. He for some time represented Glasgow in Parliament, and subsequently held the office of Lord Clerk Register of Scotland. He died 8 June, 1816.



Admitted 12 April, 1851.

Eldest son of Sir George Campbell of Edenwood, Fife. He was educated at St. Andrews and Haileybury, and from 1842 to 1851 was actively engaged in Government employ in India. He then returned and entered at the Inner Temple, where he was called to the Bar 26 Jan. 1854, and proceeded again to India the same year, as Magistrate and Collector in Azimghur. Being present during the Mutiny, he forwarded to the Times an interesting series of letters on matters connected with it, and he was the first to enter Delhi after the capture of that city. In the course of a long period of service he was instrumental in introducing into Oude the new Indian Codes of Civil and Criminal Procedure (1862). In the same year he was appointed the first Judge of the High Court of Bengal, and in 1867 Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces. Then, after a three years' absence in England, during which he received the degree of D.C.L. from the University of Oxford, he was made Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, a post he held till 1874, when he returned to England, and transferred his energies to the House of Commons. He wrote much on Indian subjects, including a work on Modern India (1842); India as it may be (1873); and Memoirs of my Indian Career, published in 1893. He died at Cairo 18 Feb. 1892.



Admitted 23 June, 1752.

Eldest son of Stratford Canning of Garvagh. He belonged to a good family settled in Ireland, but originally of Foxcote in Warwickshire. He offended his family by marrying a lady inferior to himself in rank and fortune. He was called to the Bar 23 Nov. 1764, and died in poor circumstances in the Temple in 1771, a year only after the birth of his distinguished son, afterwards statesman and Prime Minister.

During his brief and unfortunate career he devoted himself to literature, and published A Translation of Anti-Lucretius (1766); An Appeal to the Public against the Critical Review (1767); Poems (1767); A Birthday Offering to a Young Lady from her Lover (1770).