RARE! English Judge Horace Davey Clipped Signature
"English Judge" Horace Davey Clipped Signature. 30 August 1833 - 20 February. Davey was the son of Peter Davey, of. Pace, and was born in Camberwell, Surrey. Matriculated on 20 March 1852.
He took a double first-class in Classics and. Mathematics (Moderations and Finals), was senior mathematical scholar and Eldon. Law scholar (1859), and was elected a Fellow of his college (1856-67).
Achieved a BA (1856), and an MA (1859) Davey decided on a career in the law. Almost as soon as he started work as a law reporter, he married the following. Summer, on 5 August 1862. He was employed on young titles such as.
When he joined in marriage Louisa Hawes Donkin at St George's. She was the daughter of. Of Ormond House, Old Kent Road, a civil engineer.
Davey's success at law. Reporting allowed him to read in the chambers of. 8 New Square, Lincoln's Inn.
As an Equity pleader and early pupillage, he. Became a junior counsel at the Treasury, devilling in Chancery. Was promoted as Vice-Chancellor to Chancery division, he went with his old. He continued in the post (1873-74) when. On the basis of this experience he was recommended for. Quickly moved to the House of. Lords, Davey had rapidly developed a reputation for argumentation at the bar.Viscount Alverstone called him the most brilliant barrister. Counsel his well-known cases included. Greatest intellectual philosopher-politician of his generation described Davey.
As the finest advocate on pure points of law... Believed that there was no one better at arguing a point of.