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John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly PC , known as Sir John Romilly between 1848 and 1866, was an English Whig politician and judge. He served in Lord John Russell's first administration as Solicitor-General from 1848 to 1850 and as Attorney-General from 1850 and 1851. The latter year he was appointed Master of the Rolls, a post he held until 1873. Knighted in 1848, he was ennobled as Baron Romilly in 1866. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. January 1802 – 23. December 1874
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“The decisions of the House of Lords are binding on me and upon all the Courts except itself.”

Att.-Gen. v. The Dean and Canons of Windsor (1858), 24 Beav. 715.

“A master should be paid liberally, in order to secure a person properly qualified.”

Att.-Gen. v. Warden, &c. of Louth School (1852), 14 Beav. 206.

“There is no magic in words.”

Lord v. Jeffkins (1865), 35 Beav. 16.

“The public can have no rights springing from injustice to others.”

Walker v. Ware, Hadham, &c. Rail. Co. (1866), 12 Jur. (N. S.) 18.

“Clubs are very peculiar institutions. They are societies of gentlemen who meet principally for social purposes, superadded to which there are often certain other purposes, sometimes of a literary nature, sometimes to promote political objects, as in the Conservative or the Reform Club.”

But the principal objects for which they are designed are social, the others are only secondary. It is, therefore, necessary that there should be a good understanding between all the members, and that nothing should occur that is likely to disturb the good feeling that ought to subsist between them.
Hopkinson v. Marquis of Exeter (1867), L. R. 5 Eq. Ca. 67.

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