2-717-495 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Sir Samuel Romilly', c1790, (c1884). Samuel Romilly (1757-1818), British lawyer, abolitionist, politician and legal reformer, largely self-educated from a Huguenot family, he entered Gray's Inn and was made a King's Counsel in 1800. From "Leaders of the Senate: A Biographical History of the Rise and Development of the British Constitution, Vol. I.", by Alexander Charles Ewald, F.S.A. [William Mackenzie, London, Edinburgh & Berlin]