1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
TALFOURD, SIR THOMAS NOON (1795-1854), English judge and author, the son of a brewer in good circumstances, was born on the 26th of May 1795 at Reading (not, as is sometimes stated, at Doxey, near Stafford). He received his early education ab Hendon, and at the Reading grammar-school. At the age of eighteen he was sent to London to study law under Joseph Chitty, the special pleader. Early in 1821 he joined the Oxford circuit, having been called to the bar at the middle Temple in the same year. When, fourteen years …
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