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VOL. XII.

No. 3.

BOSTON.

MARCH, 1900.

BARON MARTIN. Chief Baron, and they were married in I843Martin's first brief was in a turf case, rais ing the question whether a horse called Bloomsbury, which had won the St. Leger, was disqualified or not _ for being misdescribed. This was peculiarly appropriate, for Martin was a great lover of horses and much interested in all that concerned them. He never made a bet, but his knowledge of the " Racing Calendar" was something ex traordinary. In the old days of the Nor thern Circuit, when the journey had to be made by coach, he knew every team on the road; and when the way lay by the racing paddocks of Yorkshire, he would point out and give the name and history of every horse in the paddocks that could be seen from where he sat on the coach top. After thirteen years at the junior bar he became a Q. C. in 1843, and stepped at once into a leading practice at Guildhall. He probably owed something of his success to his father-in-law, the Chief Baron, with whom he was a great favorite. Pollock was supposed to show him great partiality, but nothing probably was further from the in tention of the Chief Baron. However that , may be, it was the cause of an unpleasant scene in court, when, on one occasion, Mar short duration, for " at fifteen or twenty tin was for the Crown against Sir F. Thesiger minutes to seven the inexorable hackney (afterwards Lord Chelmsford) for the de coach would come to the door, and carry fendant in an action tried before Pollock. In the course of the case, rose and nff host and guests together to the Temple, declared with warmth thatThesiger it was impossible where consultations and answering of cases occupied the rest of the evening." for counsel to do his duty in that court As a result of these visits, hasty as they when he had Mr. Martin as his opponent. were, an attachment sprang up between the The library in his chambers overlooking young Irish barrister and a daughter of the the fountain in the Middle Temple was very 105

THE Right Honorable Sir Samuel Mar tin, son of Samuel Martin, of Calmore, Londonderry, was born in 1801. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and like Cairns and Willes came to seek his fortune at the English bar. He was not a brilliant or versatile man, nor had he any of the wit or eloquence which so often distinguishes the sons of Erin, but he had, what is much better in a lawyer, a clear, strong, wise intellect, and a sound knowledge of the law. He was a large man, careless in his dress, speaking plain common sense in terse, simple lan guage, with a brogue which he never lost in spite of his long residence in England. He entered at Gray's Inn in 1821, and after wards at the Middle Temple, and he was called to the bar by the latter society in 1830. He learned the elements of law in the chambers of Frederick Pollock, after wards Chief Baron. In those days barristers had no evenings at home at all. Consultations were held in the evenings, so that dining out or enter taining guests was out of the question, but often, as the Chief Baron's son says in his remembrances, " My father would bring pupil home room," to dinner butone even or this two gayety men from was his of

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