London vit Bombay, January 20.
It is understood that Sir William Snowdon Robson, &.0., M.P., Solicitor-General, is to become Attorney-General in the place of the late Sir John Lawson Walton; while Mr. Rufus Isaacs, K.c., MP, sticceeds Sir William Robson as Solicitor-General.
Sir William Robson sat for Bow and Bromley in the short Parliament of 1885-6 and fas been member for South Bhields since in 1895. He is a native of Newcastle has built up a big p at the Bar, making himself a specialist on trade cases and as a politician has scored the very unusual success of placing, asa private Member, an important measure, the Half-Times' Act, on the Statute Books. He was educated at Cains College, Cambridge, was called in 1880 and took silk in' 1892.
Mr, Rufus Daniel Téaacé was born in 1860 and educated at University College School and in Brussels and Hanover. Ho began life on the Stock Exhange and his experience there served him in good stead after he was called to the Bar in 1887 for the expert knowledge he had thus acquired in dealing with commercial cases, He ix arily brilliant croseexaminer and occupies one of the fe most places at the Bar, while in Parliament he has been' constantly erded as one of the coming men of the Liberal party ever since his corparatively recent entry in 1904 when he wou the Reading by-election.
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