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Also Known As Henry de Bretton • Henry de Bratton
Born Devon? • England
Died 1268 • Exeter • England?
Notable Works “De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae”
Subjects Of Study English law • common law
William Blackstone
Sir William Blackstone
English jurist
Sir Edward Coke
English jurist
Sir Matthew Hale, detail of an oil painting after John Michael Wright; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Matthew Hale
English legal scholar
Sir John Fortescue
English jurist
Frederic Maitland, detail of an oil painting by Beatrice Lock, 1906; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Frederic William Maitland
British jurist
Ranulf de Glanville
English politician and legal scholar
Sir Frederick Pollock, portrait by R.G. Eves; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet
British scholar
Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, sepia drawing by George Frederick Watts; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, 1st Baronet
British law scholar
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
British author, philosopher, and statesman
Mansfield, William Murray, 1st earl of, earl of Mansfield, baron of Mansfield, Lord Mansfield
William Murray, 1st earl of Mansfield
British jurist
John Austin
English jurist
Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st earl of Birkenhead
Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st earl of Birkenhead
British statesman
George Jeffreys, detail of an oil painting attributed to H. Claret; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys
English judge
Sir John Davies
British poet
Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe
British horologist
Caroline Norton, detail of an oil painting by John Hayter.
Caroline Norton
British writer
Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st marquess of Reading
British statesman
Eldon, detail of a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Scott, 1st earl of Eldon
British politician
Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne, detail of an oil painting by J.M. Stewart after E.M. Busk; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Roundell Palmer, 1st earl of Selborne
British jurist
Jessel, detail of an engraving
Sir George Jessel
British jurist