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This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. https://books.google.com . :1. vii .4.‘ 1 - ..I.: rid-43!; . ,.n,li ‘ .1» 24A§7‘~m i zifii§r¢§v |‘:‘Il‘.l|:§I’'. 79.1 :17. v‘ I . "Urn 4 ‘£11111’. 707'.‘ .‘ ‘ girl'' z: 2 '0 bnwfihflx vb Y Pl! . : I a: . I. ’I'OOP'Y‘I’OU'D} “ii. 1...“’ imTim. '1' a 07 " I. 2 A . '1'.“ | ‘ THE LIBRARY 9’"- “Hy-L.“ LAW SCHOOL THE INSTITUTE)[M . A CLUB OF . CONVEYANCING COUNSEL memoirs of jformer members EDITED AND EXCEPT THREE WR1TTEN BY JOHN SAVILL VAIZEY ‘ BARRlSTElPAT-LAW, AN HONORARY MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE PRINTED FOR THE CLUB I695, I899, 1900 AND I907 PRINTED BY HAZILL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD LONDON AND AYLISBURY. PREFATORY NOTE. HE following memoirs are those of the first 69 members of The Institute in the order of their election. The last of them was elected in 1861. Two others, elected in 1877 and 1880, have been added for special reasons (see p. 2 50). The memoirs have been issued in four parts. The first, containing Nos. 1 to 20, pp. 1 to 52, in the year 1895; the second, containing Nos. 21 to 50, pp. 53 to 150, in January, 1899; the third, containing Nos. 51 to 60, pp. 151 to 198, in 1900; and a final part, Nos. 61 to 69, and also Nos. 77 and 80, pp. 199 to 266, in April, 1907. The memoir of Mr. Dalzell (p. 70) was written by Mr. F. A. Peck, of the Chancery Bar, a son of the late Mr. J. K. Peck, a former member of the Institute—- that of Mr. Joshua Williams (p. 1 72) by his son, Mr. T. C. Williams, now a member, and that of Mr. Davidson (p. 159) by his nephew, Mr. M. G. Davidson, now the Secretary of The Institute—the lines quoted at the end (p. 167) being added at the suggestion of Mr Davidson’s first pupil, the late Mr. T. C. Wright. PREFA TOR Y NOTE. The Preface which immediately follows this note was issued with the first part in 1895. Since it was written the compiler has seen and examined the first Minute Book of the Institute, and has culled from it several entries which are of interest to the present members of the club. On the 1 5th of March, 1815, and at the Freemasons’ Tavern, Messrs. Brodie as chairman, Hodgson, Morley, Tyrrell, Coote, and Tomkyns resolved, among other things, that a club should be established; that the members should dine together on the first Monday in every alternate month; that Messrs. Harrison, Birch, and Kerr (meaning, it is presumed, Bellenden Ker, below, No. 67) be invited to become members ; that the number should be limited to twelve; that no member should be admitted who should not be a conveyancer in practice in London ; that Coote should be Secretary, and that the club should be called The Institute. The minutes were signed by Mr. Hodg son as President. On the 1st of May the Secretary re ported that Mr. Harrison had accepted and Mr. Birch hadldeclined the invitation, and that he had not invited Mr. Ker because he was a member of the elder Conveyancers’ Club (see below, Preface, p. v). Mr. Walters was elected, and it was resolved that three years’ standing be required for membership, and that Hodgson be President and Coote Secretary for one year. The club appears to have consisted of the above-named eight members till the election of Mr. Wilde, PREFA TOR Y NOTE. which was reported on April 17th, 1817. In June, 1818, Mr. Lloyd Williams; in May, 1819, Mr. Egerton; and in March, 1823, Mr. Francis Turner were elected, and so the first number of twelve was completed. From time to time the days on which the meetings at dinner should be held were varied, and the present practice of meeting on the third Tuesday in January and the second Tuesday in March, May, July, and November was adopted in May, 1853. The hour was at first six o’clock, but in 182 5 it was altered to five o’clock. The restriction on the number of members was relaxed by many suc cessive changes, its present limit of forty being proposed in 1849. The name The Institute given to the club by its founders may suggest audacity in them, for they were all young men. The men then of such renown as conveyancers obtain were members of the older club. But the audacity, if such it was, did much to justify its perpetrators. Fourteen years later two of the six founders, Hodgson and Brodie, and later Tyrrell with Duval (below, No. 31), were appointed members of Lord Lyndhurst’s Real Property Law Commission, and Coote’s publication of his well-known work made his name almost a synonymy of the Law of Mortgage. The original resolution that three years’ standing—afterwards altered to five years’—-should be a necessary quali fication for eligibility to the club perhaps meant standing as a certificated conveyancer, for it does PREFA TOR Y NOZE. not appear that all of the earlier members had been called before their election. That the founders of The Institute had public objects in view when they established it is shown by the following resolution, and the subsequent extract from a letter written by Mr. Hodgson well describes the value of the club to its members them selves. In 1828, when the possible number of the club had been increased to twenty, the members passed a resolution that they would, individually as well as collectively, give their best assistance to the Real Property Commission; that the members of the club who were not members of the Commission would meet from time to time for that purpose; and that the Secretary should be requested to com municate these resolutions to the members of the club who were members of the Commission. In the following year, 1829, The lnstitute instructed the Secretary to invite the Real Property Commissioners to dinner on the 16th of February. Mr. Hodgson, on his retirement in 1849, wrote to Mr. Coote, then the Secretary, thanking his fellow members for their flattering and kind manner of receiving his letter of resignation, and he added that, looking back to the long period since the foundation of the club, he could not help feeling both pride and satisfaction in the conviction that the society had been the means of doing good service to the profession of its members, in bringing PREFA TORY NOTE.‘ together men who ordinarily are not so much thrown into each other’s society as it is desirable that they should be, thereby contributing to the production and maintenance of that feeling of mutual confidence which is so essential to the intercourse of a liberal profession. In 1853 a minute noted that it was understood that conveyancers of the Court were eligible to The Institute. In 1864 the qualification for membership, which consisted of practising as a conveyancer, seems to have been dispensed with (see below, p. 254). The compiler of these memoirs much regrets the delay which has occurred in the issue of the last eleven of them. They were nearly ready several years ago when he became engaged in work which until a recent date absorbed all his leisure. The writer is very grateful to the many members of The Institute and other persons who have most kindly furnished him with much of the information contained in the lives. Of these only a few can be named; but first must be mentioned Sir Howard W. Elphinstone, Bart., who, when he was Secretary of The Institute, invited and encouraged the writer to undertake and helped him in performing the task. Next, the aid of the late Mr. Alexander Brodie, who had an extensive knowledge of the earlier members of the Club and freely contributed materials for the construction of the lives, must be gratefully referred to. That aid Mr. M. G. Davidson, the present PREFA T OR Y IVOTE. Secretary, kindly procured-most of Mr. Brodie’s letters being written to him. Mr. Davidson, more~ over, has also furnished much more material out of his own stores of knowledge, and has throughout and in innumerable ways given to the compiler his counsel, assistance, and support. Mr. Burrows also from the first encouraged the project and contributed to the work from his recollection of events and men in a now distant past. He has permitted the insertion in its proper order of the account of his life printed in this collection, although he is not a former member, but still an honorary member of the Club. To the late Mr. C. T. Simpson and the late Mr. J. F. Pownall, both members of the Institute, the writer was also much indebted ; and the late Earl of Selborne, the late Lord Thring, and Sir Edward Fry, besides members of the families of several of the. subjects of the memoirs, have kindly contributed information. CONTENTS NO. 1. JOHN HoDGsoN ,’ PETER BELL1NGER BRoD1E . 9“ewv GEORGE MORLEY . JoIIN TYRRELL R1CHARD HOLMES CooTE 13 THOMAS TOMKYNS . 15 GEORGE HARRlsoN 16 9° ROBERT WALTERS 2o SAMUEL FRANC1s THOMAS W1LDE 23 10. EDWARD LLOYD W1LL1AMS 26 H 11. HENRY EGERToN 27 H 12. FRANC1s TURNER 28 13. SAMUEL TURNER 33 14. JosEPII HUMPHRY 35 15. HENRY C1-1ANcE 37 16. HENRY WATERLAND MANDER 39 vii I) viii CONTENTS.
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