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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 17 : London again.—characters of judges.—Oxford.—Cambridge— November and December , 1838 .—Age, 27 . (search)
Dec. 14, 1838.
Poor Allan Park is dead; and everybody is speculating about his successor.
The Solicitor-General will be the man.
Park died Dec. 8.
Thomas Erskine (not Rolfe) was appointed, Jan. 9, 1839, his successor.
Rolfe was appointed a baron of the Exchequer in Nov., 1839. Post, p. 52. I dined last night with Serjeant Wilde, and it was amusing to see the coquetry between him, Talfourd, Bompas, and Hill, with regard to the successor.
I came up yesterday from Oxford, where I have passed four delightful days.
I was installed by Sir Charles Vaughan as an honorary Fellow of All Souls.
I have now given you the Queen's Bench and the Common Pleas judges.
I shall follow this with the barons of the Exchequer; and then with a view of the common law bar. Afterwards you may expect something about the Chancery Bar and Admiralty.
I have read Sir Mathew Hale's Ms. on the Admiralty, and find it to be a complete treatise on the subject, which contains nothing new to you, but which,