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HE HON. SIR HENRY HAWKINS is a son of Mr. J. H. Hawkins, solicitor, and was born at Hitchin. He was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple at the age of twenty-seven, becoming a Q.C. at forty-two. He enjoyed one of the largest practices ever known, his power of cross-examining witnesses and of addressing the jury being unrivalled. He was engaged in the prosecution of the Claimant in the memorable Tichborne Trial. He was appointed Judge of the High Court of Justice in the Queen's Bench Division at sixty, the age at which the fourth of our portraits represents him.