FARRAR HERSCHELL, ENGLAND.

(1837-.)

Right Honorable Privy Councillor. The Lord High Chancellor of England. Born in 1837; educated at University College, London, and at Bonn; called to bar, 1860. Made Queen's Counsel and a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn in 1872; represented Durham as a Liberal, 1874-85; knighted and made Solicitor General in 1880; raised to peerage and became Chancellor in 1886, resigning on Gladstone's defeat. Was succeded by Lord Halsbury, who, in turn, resigned on Salsbury's defeat in 1892. On Gladstone's new incoming, he again became Chancellor, August 18, 1892. He took part in the Round Table Conference on Home Rule, holding the first meeting at his home. Was President of the Royal Commission to investigate the Metropolitan Board of Works.

While at the bar, he enjoyed an extensive practice, chiefly in the Court of Appeals, Privy Council and House of Lords, where he frequently opposed the late Judah P. Benjamin, of Jewish extraction like himself. In the absence of Lord Kimberly and Earl

Roseberry, he usually assumes the leadership of the upper branch of the British Legislature, being conspicuous for his skill, incisive reasoning and unfailing good nature. He not only presides in the politi cal sittings of the House of Lords, but over the judi cial body known as the House of Lords, for the hearing of appeals from the courts of appeal of England, Scotland and Ireland, and as a member of the Privy Council, for the hearing of appeals from the British colonies. His latest great performance has been presiding over the Imperial Commission to inquire into the depression of the rupee, and more generally, the coinage of India. The report, adopted by India (a masterly review of the whole currency question) recommended the closing of the mints for silver coinage, except as permitted by the government, and fixed the value of the rupee at one shilling and four pence. He is principal adviser of the Crown, and as Chancellor draws an annual salary of $50,000.

GEORGE HOADLY, NEW YORK.

(1826

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Senior member of the leading law firm of Hoadly, Lauterbach and Johnson, of New York city. Born at New Haven, Connecticut, July 31, 1826. His father was mayor of New Haven, and later of Cleveland, Ohio; and his grandfather a captain in the Revolution, and twenty-six times a member of the Connecticut Legislature. When four years old young Hoadly's father moved to Cleveland, at which place and Western Reserve College the son was educated, graduating Bachelor of Arts at eighteen. He studied

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law at Harvard, and with Honorable C. C. Convers, of Zanesville, and a year at Cincinnati, being admitted twenty-one. After serving two years as a clerk in the office of Chase and Ball, Mr. Hoadly became a member of the firm of Chase (Salmon P.), Ball and Hoadly. He was Judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, 1851-3; City Solicitor of Cincinnati, 1855; Judge of the New Superior Court, 1859-66; twice declined an Ohio Supreme Court Judgeship from Governors Chase and

Todd; in 1873 was a member of the Ohio constitutional convention, without opposition; Governor of Ohio, 1884-6; and removed to New York city in March, 1887, where the firm has one of the most extensive law businesses in that city, occupying one entire floor of the Farmers's Loan and Trust Company's building, covering a space of forty-two hundred square feet, and employing an office force of thirty-three persons.

Mr. Hoadly is learned in the law, has been twenty years professor of law in the Cincinnati Law School, and has been engaged in some of the most important litigation in the country, traces of which are to be found in the reports of the United States Supreme Court, the Ohio Supreme Court, and the New York Court of Appeals. He argued the Oregon and Florida cases before the Electoral tribunal; the case in support of the right of the Cincinnati Board of Education to exclude the Bible from the common schools; and the Bishop Purcell assignment, involving ab struse civil law, cannon law, and common law questions; and has recently been retained by the Government in its litigation with the Union Pacific railway. Mr. Hoadly is a LL.D. of Adelbert, Yale and Dartmouth colleges.

Advice to the Young Lawyer for Success in His Pro

fession.

"In my opinion there are three things which I regard of primary consequence to the young lawyer who would secure a large practice and an honorable reputation in the community. One of these acquirements, and the one to which I would first call attention, is the possession of faculty, or, if you please to call it, genius or talent. And while a man is responsible for the employment of the best he has of this, he certainly cannot be held responsible for more than that. This leads me to say that no young lawyer is to be blamed for the lack of a greater degree of faculty than was given him by the Almighty. But such a young man certainly is to be blamed for the misuse of the talents which the Creator has bestowed upon him. Every young lawyer has at his command two things which can insure for him success—that is, as much success as his natural gifts entitle him to—and that is absolute integrity to his clients, and to himself. The successful lawyer depends much upon his true courage and absolute integrity in dealing with his adversaries. Nor can he succeed without industry, for unremitting labor is required until he has given evidence of his talents and integrity. The young lawyer must patiently await his time, and he who is a faithful and diligent laborer in acquiring knowledge, and adds to this fidelity to his clients, will eventually succeed. A great many lawyers of only