Not that this is the point I wish now to put before you and your readers, but I want information on a somewhat kindred subject.
In Craik's Romance of the Peerage there occurs:
"Percy's leading counsel upon this occasion was Mr. Sergeant (afterwards Sir Francis) Pemberton, who subsequently rose to be first a puisne judge, and then Chief Justice of the King's Bench, was thence transferred to the Chief Justiceship of the Common Pleas, and after all ended his days a practitioner at the bar."—Vol. iv. p. 291. note.
Pemberton, it appears, was dismissed from the Common Pleas in 1683; he was counsel for the seven bishops in 1688, as was also another displaced judge, Sir Creswell Leving, or Levinge, who was superseded in 1686.
Are these the only two instances of judges, qui olim fuere, practising at the bar? If not, are they the latest? And farther, if not the latest, does not etiquette forbid such practice now?
W. T. M.
Hong Kong.
Celebrated Wagers.—I should be glad if any correspondent will point out any remarkable
instances of the above. The ordinary channels for obtaining such information I am of course acquainted with.
C. Clifton Barry.