1 Corbould del E hinde saulp. London; PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, REES, OR ME, BROWN, & GREEN PATERNOSTER PU AND JOHN TAYLOR, UPPER GOWER STEEM 1830. SIR EDWARD COKE 1550 Norfolk 1584 Sussex 1650 Worcester 1746. London LORD ERSKINE 1750 Scotland Sır Samuel ROMILLY | 1757 (London 1676 Ld. Chief Justice 59 1685 Lord Keeper 1689 Lord Chancellor 113 1716 Lord Chancellor 1776 Ld. Chief Justice 171 100 S Ch. Justice ? 1792 Com. Pleas S 1780 LA. Chief Justice 1783 Solicitor General 287 1806 Lord Chancellor 258 1901 Chief Judge 21 1794 in India S 1823 Lord Chancellor 329 1818 Solicitor General 391 BIOGRAPHY. BRITISH LAWYERS. SIR EDWARD COKE. 1550—1634. EDWARD COKE, afterwards solicitor and attorney-general, and successively lord chief justice of the courts of common pleas and of the king's bench, was descended from an ancient family in the county of Norfolk. He was the son of Robert Coke, Esq. of Mileham, in that county, a barrister of great practice, and a bencher of Lincoln's Inn, by Winifred, daughter and coheiress of William Knightley, of Morgrave Knightley, in the same county. He was born at Mileham in the year 1550; and at the age of ten years was sent to the free-school at Norwich; whence he was removed to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he remained for four years. At the expiration of that period he became a member of Clifford's Inn ; and in the course of the next year of the Inner Temple. While a student of the latter society, he is said to have exhibited proofs of the high legal talents by which he was afterwards so greatly distinguished. At the end of six years he was called to the bar; a very short probation, the usual period being at that time eight years. * The first case in which he appeared in the king's bench was the Lord Cromwell's case, in Trinity term * Dugdale's Origines, p. 159. B |