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 He became a Queen's Counsel in 1837, and Reader at the Inn in 1841. Three years later he was elected Treasurer, and in 1816 was appointed Recorder of Bristol. From 1849—1854 he represented Liskeard in Parliament, but was more eminent as an advocate than as a parliamentary orator. In the latter year he was raised to the Bench as a Justice of the Common Pleas. He died 5 Dec. 1859.

Admitted 11 June, 1864.

Youngest son of Henry John Crump of Mill Hill, Chaplain to the Dissenters' Grammar School, Nonconformist Minister. He was educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, and at Cambridge. He was called to the Bar 30 April, 1867, and obtained a large practice at the Common Law Bar, but he is best remembered as the editor and proprietor of the Law Times, and the originator of the Bar Council. He took silk in 1885, and became a Bencher of the Inn in 1892. He died on Easter Sunday, 1900, from an affection of the heart induced by over exertion as a cyclist.

He was the author of treatises on Pledge and Sale (1868); on Marine Insurance and General Average (1875); and of an Essay on the Rights of Lords and Commoners with reference to Manorial Waste Lands, published 1867.

Admitted 15 May, 1594.

Third son of Francis Culpeper of Hollingbourn, Kent. He was born in 1578 and educated at Oxford. He was a man of fortune and purchased Leeds Castle and resided there. He was knighted by James I. in 1619. He was the author of a tract upon Usurie, which led to the amendment of the law on that subject in 1624. He died in Jan. 1661-2.

Admitted 1 December, 1647.

Second son of (q.v.) of Hollingbourn, Kent. He was educated at Oxford, where he was elected Probationer-Fellow of All Souls. He was called to the Bar 22 Nov. 1661. He was knighted at the Restoration. He edited his father's tract on Usury, and himself wrote other treatises upon the same subject. He died in Dec. 1697.

Admitted 12 May, 1716.

Son and heir of Alexander Cuming, Baronet, of Cultyr (Culter), co. Mar. At the time of his admission he was a member of the Scottish Bar, and a captain in the Russian Army. In 1729 he was led, by a dream of his wife, to visit America, arid settling in the Cherokee country was by that tribe elected their Chief and Law-giver in 1730. He returned to England with four of the chiefs, whom he presented to George II. at Windsor, and who entered into an "agreement of peace and friendship" with this country. His subsequent schemes were not successful, and, returning to England, he died in the Charterhouse Hospital in 1775. He was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1720.