Everyone is sorry that the Master of the Rolls has at last sent in his resignation though, of course, it will be a relief to the ser members of the Bar to have the long standing question of promotion to his office settled and done with. It has been said of Lord Esher that he was a strong jury to his own way of thinking, but judge who could not only bring: ov the law itself. Many of his obiter dicta are likely to be handed down among the traditions of the Bench. When the question arose in the famous Hawke vt. Dunn case as to the meaning of a betting place he made a remark which sct the Queen's Counsel and the Junior Bar in a roar that
rope." At the dinner held in May by 120 "every place is a place except a tight University Oarsmen in honour of the four old-Blues on the Bench, Lord Esher, Lord Macnaughten, Lord Justice A. L. Smith and Lord Justice Chitty, Lord Esher's speech was full of pleasant reminiscences of his boating days. He told the younger generations how when his College boat, Cains, became head of the river, he went out after a jovial bump supper, into the streets to proclaim their success. He came across the University proctor, "the last person in the world whom he expected or wished to meet," and proceeded to explain in an effusive apology to that official, but was let off, without any penal consequence. He rowed in the third University race, that of 1839, when the long course was from Westminister to Putney, about 53 miles. W. Baliol Brett as he then was, thirty-three years afterwards could say from his own experience, that the exercise was not injurious. At Cambridge he rowed as much and as hard as any one and took part-in 72 races in all without suffering in the slightest deg as a specimen as can be found of an The late Master of the Rolls is still happy old age resulting from the healthy union of brain and muscle.
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