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 the first secretary ot the Unitarian Society for Promoting the Knowledge of the Scriptures. Succeeding to a large property he resigned his ministry in 1805, and spent the rest of his life in literary leisure and agriculture. He died 26 Dec. 1816, and was buried at Fryerning, in Essex.

He left a large number of treatises behind him, chiefly sermons, memoirs, and controversial publications, the best known being a defence of Blackburne's Confessional (1768), and Reasons for Quitting the Church of England (1782).

Admitted 27 January, 1848.

Second son of Peter Dixon of Holme Eden, Carlisle. He was educated at Rugby and at Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1846. He was called to the Bar 7 May, 1852, but soon relapsed into the habit of writing for the Sporting press, which he had formed even in his school days. His contributions were inserted under the pseudonym of "The Druid," a name by which he is generally remembered. They appeared generally in Bell's Life (the editorship of which was offered him in 1852), in The Illustrated London News, The Field, and The Sporting Magazine, his three best known works. Post and Paddock, Silk and Scarlet, and Scott and Sebright, appearing first in the last-named periodical. He also wrote much on farming matters, and won four prizes for essays, given by the Royal Agricultural Society. Though a writer on sporting subjects he had nothing of the "turfy-man" about him, but was always the "gentleman and scholar." He died 16 March, 1870.

Admitted 7 November, 1853.

Eldest son of John Dobson, solicitor, of Gateshead, and afterwards of Hobart Town, Tasmania. He was called to the Bar 6 June, 1856, and to the Tasmanian Bar in 1857. He was appointed Crown Solicitor to the Colony in 1859, and sat in the House of Assembly from 1861 to 1870, when he was appointed puisne judge of the Colony. In 1885 he became Chief Justice. He was knighted in 1886 and made a K.C.M.G. in 1897. He died 17 March, 1898.

Admitted 29 November, 1577.

Eldest son of Richard Doddridge, merchant, of Barnstaple, where he was born in 1555. He was educated at Oxford, where he graduated 1576, and was admitted to the Inn from New Inn. In 1603 he was Reader at the Inn, and on 20 Jan. 1603-4 became Serjeant-at-Law. The following year he was appointed Solicitor-General to James I. In 1607 he was constituted one of the King's Serjeants, and soon afterwards knighted. In 1612 he was appointed one of the justices of the King's Bench, and in the following year created a Master of Arts in Serjeants' Inn, for "services done to his University." He was not only eminent in his profession, but in the Arts, Divinity, and Civil Law. He died 13 Sept. 1628, and has left behind him the following published treatises: A Compleat Parson [readings delivered at the New Inn (1602) ]; The Lawyer's Light (1629); An Historical Account of the State of the Principality of Wales (1630); The English Lawyer (1631); The Magazine of Honour (1642) [reprinted in 1657 as The Law of Nobilitye, Knights, and Esquires]; Honour's