Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1902 — Noble and a Lawyer. [ARTICLE]

Noble and a Lawyer.

The English bar has now in Lord Robert Cecil a queen’s counsel who entered the profession with "lord” before his name. There have been many noblemen's sons at the bar for a hundred years or more who have attained the high honor of the profession, but they have nyt been ‘ lords.” When some twenty-five years ago a son of the Duke of Argyll entered a business house to prepare for a mercantile career —which be abandoned for the stock exchange—it made much talk. His brother, Lord Colin Campbell, practiced at the Indian bar. The case of Lord Coleridge differs from that of Lord Roberts and Colin Campbell, as he began his forensic career as plain Mr., but took an entirely new departure by continuing' in the profession after succeeding to a peerage