Pearce-Edgcumbe, Edward Robert, LL.D., King's Coll., Camb., 1883, B.A. 1874, LL.M. 1877, an examiner in High Court of Justice since Feb., 1884, a member of the Western circuit, author of the Bills of Sale Act 1878, 1882, joint author of Agricultural Holdings Act 1883, etc., assumed the additional surname of Edgcumbe, a student of Lincoln's Inn 14 Nov., 1873, called to the bar 25 April, 1877 (only son of Edward Pearce, of Dorchester, banker); born 13 March, 1851; married 9 Aug., 1884, Clara Jane Constance, younger dau. of late John Charles Conybeare, Esq., of Fryerning, Essex, and of the Inner Temple, bar.-at-law.
- Somerleigh, Dorchester; 5, Paper Buildings, Temple, E.C.