RARE "English Judge" Horace Davey Clipped Signature For Sale

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RARE "English Judge" Horace Davey Clipped Signature:
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Up fort sale a RARE! "English Judge" Horace Davey Clipped Signature.

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Horace Davey, Baron Davey, PC, FRS, FBA (30 August 1833 – 20 February

1907) was an English

judge and Liberal politician. Davey was the son of Peter Davey, of

Horton, Buckinghamshire and Caroline Emma

Pace, and was born in Camberwell, Surrey. He was educated at Rugby

and University College, Oxford, where he

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). Having

achieved a BA (1856), and an MA (1859) Davey decided on a career in the law. He

was admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 19 January 1857. On 26 January

1861, he was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn.

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 New

Reports, when he joined in marriage Louisa Hawes Donkin at St George's,

Camberwell. She was the daughter of John Donkin

of Ormond House, Old Kent Road, a civil engineer. Davey's success at law

reporting allowed him to read in the chambers of John Wickens,

8 New Square, Lincoln's Inn. As an Equity pleader and early pupillage, he

became a junior counsel at the Treasury, devilling in Chancery. When John Wickens

was promoted as Vice-Chancellor to Chancery division, he went with his old

master, as his secretary. He continued in the post (1873–74) when Vice-Chancellor Hall

gained office. On the basis of this experience he was recommended for silk

on 23 June 1875. He selected to join Sir George Jessel's court, often appearing

before the redoubtable Joseph Chitty. 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." As

counsel his well-known cases included: Speight v. Gaunt (1883), Learoyd

v. Whiteley (1887), Derry v. Peek (1889). Lord Haldane, himself, the

greatest intellectual philosopher-politician of his generation described Davey

as "the finest advocate on pure points of law..." Lord MacNaughten

believed that there was no one better at "arguing a point of

practice."

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