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

— John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly

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

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English Whig politician and judge 1802–1874

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