Cowie, Hugh, Q.C., M.A., recorder of Maldon and Saffron Walden 1873, chancellor of Durham district registry of probate division 1876, secretary to Criminal Code Commission 1878, counsel to the Post Office at Central Criminal Court 1879, an assistant boundary commissioner for Reform Bill 1867, a revising barrister on South-eastern circuit 1868, a commissioner of Oxford election inquiry 1880, common law examiner to Inns of Court 1881 and 1885, mathematical scholar King's Coll., London, M.A., Trin. Coll., Camb., 1860, B.A., wrangler 1851, examiner for law tripos Camb. 1870, a student of Gray's Inn 10 May, 1859, called to the bar there 27 Jan., 1862, admitted a barrister of the Middle Temple ad eundem 13 April, 1875, bencher of Gray's Inn 26 May, 1880, Q.C. 16 Dec., 1882 (eldest son of Alexander Cowie, Esq., formerly of Auchterlees, co. Aberdeen, and late of St. John's Wood, Middlesex, dec.); born , .
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