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unusual facts about read law



Alexis Caswell Angell

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Angell received an A.B. from the University of Michigan in 1878 and read law in 1879, also receiving an LL.B. from the University of Michigan Law Department in 1880.

Cadence Spalding

Cadence Spalding was born Jennifer Lynn Spalding in San Francisco, California to a father that read law at the University of California, Berkeley and a mother that had been a model.

George Ewing Martin

He read law to enter the bar in 1883, and was in private practice in Lancaster, Ohio from 1883 to 1904.

George P. Wilson

He settled in Winona, Minnesota and read law in the offices of Lewis & Simpson and William Mitchell, a former justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, before being admitted to the bar at Rochester in October 1862.

John McKinley

In that state he read law and was admitted to the bar in 1800, practicing in Frankfort and Louisville from 1800 to 1819 before moving to Huntsville, Alabama.

Josiah Alexander Van Orsdel

Born in New Bedford, Pennsylvania, Van Orsdel received an A.B. from Westminster College in 1885 and read law to enter the bar in 1890.

Robert Morris Montgomery

He read law to be admitted to the bar in 1870, entering private practice in Pentwater, Michigan, in 1871.

Sappho, Washington

Lamoreux was the postmaster and was called "Judge" because he had read law in his youth, and was appointed Justice of the Peace for that district.

William Pitt Ballinger

In summer of 1843, at the age of eighteen, he moved from his hometown of Barbourville, Kentucky to Galveston, Texas to read law and finish his legal training under his uncle, James Love.


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Charles Dunn

Dunn read law under Nathaniel Pope in Illinois and was admitted to the Illinois bar.

Christopher Gale

He read law under an attorney in Lancashire but Gale migrated to Carolina when he was in his early twenties, settling in Bath.

Cordenio Severance

He attended Carleton College from 1877 to 1880 and then read law from 1882 to 1883 in Kasson, Minnesota.

Georgie Twigg

Having moved up a year at school she arrived at the age of 17 at Bristol University in September 2008 where she read Law and resided at Wills Hall, playing hockey for the university first team and Clifton Hockey Club.

James Dalrymple McIver

McIver read law, served as county solicitor (prosecutor), and in the North Carolina House of Representatives (1876–1877); was solicitor for the 7th judicial district (1876–1886); and judge of superior court (1890–1898).

John Maples, Baron Maples

His father, a businessman, lived in the Wirral; he was educated at Marlborough College, before going up to Downing College, Cambridge where he read Law, and played hockey for the college and performed with the Footlights.

Kim Fletcher

Educated at Heversham Grammar School, Westmorland, and Hertford College, Oxford, where he read law, Fletcher worked for various newspapers before being appointed news editor and then deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph.

Peter Holmes à Court

After completing his schooling at Geelong Grammar School in Corio, he read law at Oxford University and received his BA in economics and theatre from Middlebury College, Vermont.

Peter Mond, 4th Baron Melchett

Peter Robert Henry Mond, 4th Baron Melchett (born 24 February 1948), son of the British Steel Corporation Chairman Sir Julian Mond and Sonia Melchett (now Sinclair), was educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he read Law.

Psychology Maziwisa

Maziwisa read Law at the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN) in Pietermaritzburg after being enrolled there by Peter Roebuck.

Robert Strange

A number of people read law with him, including his nephew James Strange French.