Men-at-the-Bar/Romaine, William Govett

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Romaine, William Govett, C.B., M.A., Trin. Coll., Camb., 1859 (B.A. 1837), president of superior council of Egyptian finance since 1876, judge advocate of the army in the East 1854-6, secretary to the admiralty 1857-69, judge advocate-general of India 1869-73, one of the counsel of the court of the Queen's palace of Westminster, a student of the Inner Temple 9 June, 1834 (then aged 19), called to the bar 25 Jan., 1839 (2nd son of Rev. Robert Govett Romaine, vicar of Staines, Middlesex); born , 1815; married , , dau. of Henry Tennant, of Cadoxton Lodge, co. Glamorgan.

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