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raised direct to the Court of Appeal in the Common Pleas, and knighted. But his 1877, with the usual honor of knighthood. forte was chancery, and since he was Cotton died in 1892. He was a man of the promoted to the Court of Appeal in 1881 same intellectual type as Fry, but was more his chief judicial work has been equitable. suave and deferential in manner than his Had Lord Justice Lindley been a politician brother lord justice. Sir Edward Ebenezer he would have been Lord Chancellor. He Kay was born in 1822 and educated at Trin is one of the fairest, most liberal-minded ity College, Cambridge. He was called to and most legislative — if the expression can the bar of Lincoln's Inn in 1847, reported be pardoned — judges that have sat on the the decision of Vice Chancellor Wood, and bench in our time. His treatises on com ultimately fought his way into a sufficient pany and partnership law are fit for law uni practice to justify him in taking silk in 1866. versal. Sir Henry Charles Lopes is the In 188 1 he became a knight and a justice third son of Sir Ralph Lopes, Mariston, of the chancery division. Eleven years Devonshire. He was born in 1828, was later he succeeded Sir Henry Cotton as a educated at Winchester College and Baliol Lord Justice of Appeal. His knowledge of College, Oxford, was called to the bar in 1852, took silk in 1869, and was knighted equity case-law is unique and he has a con siderable aversion to solicitors. The gos and raised to a judgeship of the Queen's sips of the bar attribute this characteristic Bench division in 1876. Contrary to ex to the fact that at an early period of his pectation he made a model puisne judge own career Sir Edward Kay had some diffi and was rewarded by promotion to the culty in recovering his fees. Sir Nathaniel Court of Appeal in 1886. He is not a Lindley is the only son of the well known great lawyer, but is eminently patient, fairprofessor of botany at University College, minded and practical. Occasionally he does London. He was born in 1828 and was excellent duty at first-instance work in the called to the bar in 1850. Twelve years probate, divorce and admiralty division. later he was made a Queen's Counsel. In Lex. 1875 he was raised to a puisne judgeship of