George Bramwell, 1st Baron Bramwell

At 12 years old he was sent to the Palace school in Enfield, kept by Dr. George May, where he was the school-fellow of William Fry Channell, his contemporary on the home circuit and his colleague in the court of exchequer.

[1] In 1851 Lord Cranworth made Bramwell a Queen's counsel, and the Inner Temple elected him a bencher; he had ceased to be a member of Lincoln's Inn in 1841.

[2] As a queen's counsel, Bramwell enjoyed a large and steadily increasing practice, and in 1856 he was knighted and raised to the bench as a Baron of the Exchequer.

[2] As a judge, he was a great favourite of the Bar, due to his kindness and good humour, as well as his efficient dispatch of business.

Upon his retirement, announced in the long vacation of 1881, twenty-six judges and a huge gathering of the bar entertained him at a banquet in the Inner Temple hall.

He joined in 1882 the Liberty and Property Defence League, and some of his writings after that date took the form of pamphlets published by that society.