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 Ministry, with a seat in the Cabinet. In 1793 he was appointed Field Marshal. He died in London 12 Oct. 1795. He was an intimate friend of Horace Walpole, and of literary tastes. He was the author of a Comedy entitled False Appearances, and of some miscellaneous pieces in prose and verse.

Admitted 3 August, 1635.

Son of William Conyers (admitted 18 April 1605), who was Treasurer of the Inn in 1638 and Serjeant-at-Law in 1648. Tristram Conyers was appointed Lent Reader in 1669, elected Treasurer of the Inn in 1672, and became Serjeant in 1674. According to his epitaph in Walthamstow Church he died 6 Aug. 1684. He presented Foxe's Lives of the Martyrs (ed. 1641) to the Library.

Admitted 23 June, 1770.

Second son of Hugh Cook, of Cork. Having lost a considerable fortune acquired by marriage, he came to London in 1766, and was called to the Bar 30 June, 1775, but devoted himself chiefly to literature. In 1807 he published a poem, which attracted some attention from its references to the literary nobilities of the time—Johnson, Reynolds, Burke (q.v.), Goldsmith, and others. He also wrote The Art of Living in London, a Poem; a Comedy called The Capricious Lady; The Elements of Dramatic Criticism (1775); and the Memoirs of C. Macklin and Samuel Foote (1805). He died in London 3 April, 1824.

Admitted 5 February, 1830.

Eldest son of Thomas Homans Cooke of Portman Place, Maida Hill, Middlesex. He was a pupil of Mr. Amos (q.v.), at London University, and from his earliest years was a diligent student and indefatigable writer. On 30 Jan. 1835 he was called to the Bar. In the same year he published a Life of Lord Bolingbroke, and in the following one a History of Party, and a Life of Lord Shaftesbury. For many years he was employed under the Tithe and Enclosure Commissioners, and during those years he produced many legal treatises, including a work on Criminal Trials; A Treatise on the Law of Defamation (1844); on the Enclosure of Commons and the Rights of Commons (1846); on the Law and Practice of Agricultural Tenancies (1850); on Copyhold Enfranchisement (1853); The Law of Hustings and Polling Booths (1857). In 1855 he visited the Crimea, and on his return wrote what he had seen in a volume entitled Inside Sebastopol (1856). In the following year he acted as Times correspondent in China. In 1862 he became a Commissioner of Copyholds, in which position he died 18 June, 1865, from overwork.

Admitted 16 July, 1747.

Son and heir of William Cooper, M.D. of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and a descendant of Sir John Cooper, a Nova Scotia baronet, 1638. He was called to the Bar 25 Jan. 1750. In 1765 he attracted notice by a political pamphlet