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Sir William Blackstone

English jurist

Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

British politician

Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st earl of Birkenhead

British statesman

Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart

lord chief justice of England

Isaac Butt

Irish leader

Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st marquess of Reading

British statesman

John Scott, 1st earl of Eldon

British politician

Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, 1st Baronet

British law scholar

Roundell Palmer, 1st earl of Selborne

British jurist

Satyendra Prassano Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha of Raipur

Indian statesman

Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham of Hailsham

British lawyer and politician

Albert Venn Dicey

British jurist

William Henry O’Shea

Irish nationalist

Alexander Monro, tertius

Scottish physician, anatomist, and educator

Beatrice Webb

British economist

Douglas Richard Hurd

British diplomat

Sir Leon Brittan

British politician

Sidney Webb

British economist

Paddy Ashdown

British politician

Frederick Arthur, Lord Stanley of Preston

Canadian governor-general