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Admitted 17 March, 1837.

Only son of Henry Chapman of Tillotson Place, born at Kennington 1803. In 1823 he emigrated to Canada, and founded there the Montreal Daily Advertiser, the first daily paper published in the Colony. He returned to England in 1834, and after his call to the Bar, 12 June, 1840, became, in 1843, Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. He subsequently removed to Melbourne, where he practised law, and became a member of the Legislative Assembly. In 1857 he became Attorney-General of the Colony, and in the following year was called upon to form a ministry, which he did, taking himself again the place of Attorney-General. When not in office he several times filled the Chair of Law in the University of Melbourne. He returned to New Zealand in 1865, where he resumed judicial duties, but retired in 1877. He died at Dunedin 27 Dec. 1881.

He was a contributor to the Westminster Review, the Law Magazine, and to the Encyclopædia Britannica; and was the author of Thoughts on Money and Exchanges of Lower Canada (1832); The Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations (1835), and other treatises.



Admitted 7 December, 1694.

Second son of John Chappie of Upway, co. Dorset. He was called to the Bar 24 June, 1709, became Serjeant-at-Law in 1724, and in 1728 a Judge in North Wales. In 1729 he was knighted and made King's Serjeant, and in 1737 raised to a judgeship of the King's Bench. He for some time represented Dorchester in Parliament. He died 15 March, 1745.



Admitted 6 February, 1649-50.

Son and heir of Henry Chauncy of Yardley, co. Herts. He was called to the Bar 21 Nov. 1656, to the Bench 29 Jan. 1674-5, and filled the office of Reader in 1681, having just previously been appointed Recorder of Hertford. In 1681 he was knighted by Charles II. in Windsor Castle, and in 1685 he was Treasurer of his Inn. In 1688 he became Serjeant-at-Law, and was appointed a justice for the Counties of Glamorgan, Brecknock, and Radnor. It is not, however, as a lawyer that Sir Henry is now remembered, but for his monumental work entitled The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire, his native county—a work which has supplied the chief material for all subsequent histories of the county. Sir Henry died in 1719, and was buried in the church of his native place, Yardley Bury.



Admitted 16 May, 1681.

Son and heir of William Cherry, one of the Masters of the Utter Bar, and of Shottesbrooke, Berks. He was an ardent supporter of the Non-juring party, and amongst the objects of his bounty was Thomas Hearne, the antiquary, whom he put to school, and helped with money. He is spoken of by Hearne as a man of learning, and critical ability, but he left no literary work behind him. Amongst his literary friends were Bishop Ken and Henry Dodwell, the latter of whom dedicated to him his work De Veterum Cyclis. He died 23 Sept. 1713.