1-273-572 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sir Robert Porrett Collier, judge of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, 1880. He was active member of the Anti-Cornlaw League. In 1852 he became MP for Plymouth, and kept the seat until he became a member of the judicial committee of the privy council. In 1854 he became a queen's counsel. In 1868 he was appointed attorney-general. In 1885 he was created a peer, and given the title Lord Monkswell. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (Conducted by G. C. Whitfield.) (London, 1876-1883).