Sir Joseph Jekyll, KS (1663 – 19 August 1738), English lawyer and Master of the Rolls, son of John Jekyll, was born in London, and after studying at the Middle Temple was called to the bar in 1687. Serjeant-at-law ( postnominal SL) was an order of Barristers at the English or Irish bar. Events 43 BC - Octavian, later known as Augustus compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul. Year 1738 ( MDCCXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law as an attorney, Counsel or Solicitor; a person The Keeper or Master of the Rolls and Records of the Chancery of England, known as the Master of the Rolls, is the third most senior judge of England and London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as Barristers The Call to the Bar is a legal Term of art in most Common law jurisdictions
He rapidly rose to be chief justice of Chester (1697), serjeant-at-law and king's serjeant (1700), and a knight. The Justice of Chester was the chief judicial authority for the County Palatine of Chester, from the establishment of the county until the abolition of the Great Serjeant-at-law ( postnominal SL) was an order of Barristers at the English or Irish bar. In 1717 he was made master of the rolls. A Whig in politics, he sat in Parliament for various constituencies from 1697 to the end of his life, and took an active part there in debating constitutional questions with much learning, though, according to Lord Hervey (Mem. The Whigs (with the Tories) are often described as one of two political parties in England and later the United Kingdom from the late 17th to The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in 1707 following the ratification of the Acts of Union by both the Parliament of England and Parliament of Scotland i, 474), with little "approbation. " He was censured by the House of Commons for accepting a brief for the defence of Lord Halifax in a prosecution ordered by the house. The House of Commons' is the Lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords Charles Montagu 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, PC, FRS ( 16 April 1661 &ndash 19 May 1715) was an English He was one of the managers of the impeachment of the Jacobite earl of Wintoun in 1715, and of Harley (Lord Oxford) in 1717. Jacobitism was (and to a limited extent remains the political movement dedicated to the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England, Scotland Robert Harley 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer ( 5 December 1661 &ndash 21 May 1724) was an English statesman of the Stuart
In later years he supported Walpole. Robert Walpole 1st Earl of Orford, KG, KB, PC (26 August 1676 &ndash 18 March 1745 known before 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a He became very unpopular in 1736 for his introduction of the "gin act", taxing the retailing of spirituous liquors, and his house had to be protected from the mob. Year 1736 ( MDCCXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Pope has an illusion to "Jekyll or some odd Whig, who never changed his principle or wig" (Epilogue to the Satires). Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744 is generally regarded as the greatest English Poet of the eighteenth century best known for his Satirical Jekyll was also responsible for the Mortmain Act of 1736, which was not superseded till 1888.
His great-nephew Joseph Jekyll (d. 1837) was a lawyer, politician and wit, who excited a good deal of contemporary satire, and who wrote some jeux d'esprit which were well-known in his time. A politician (from Greek " Polis " is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of Politics or a person Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although in practice it is also found in the graphic and Performing arts In satire human His Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho, an African, was published in 1782. In 1894 his correspondence was edited, with a memoir, by the Hon. Algernon Bourke.
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