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Guildford. After several unsuccessful attempts to enter Parliament for Lambeth, he was elected member for the new district of Dulwich in 1886, which seat he held till his appointment as Judge of the Cornwall County Court District in 1889. He died at Torquay 10 April, 1891. He was the author of a treatise on the Law of Sheriffs.


HOWDEN, BARON. See CARADOC, JOHN FRANCIS.


HUNGERFORD, ANTHONY.
Royalist.
d. 1657.

Admitted 25 May, 1625.

Second son of Sir Anthony Hungerford of Blac Borton (Black Bourton), Oxfordshire. He sat in the Short and Long Parliaments as Member for Malmesbury, and also in the King's Parliament at Oxford (1643—4), and was fined for his loyalty as a delinquent and committed to the Tower. As he was unable to pay his fine, his estate was seized and sequestered in 1648. He died 18 Aug. 1657. He himself denied that he ever took up arms for the King, and his hard case seems to have excited the commiseration of Cromwell.


HUNGERFORD, Sir EDWARD.
Parliamentary General.
1596—1648.

Admitted 10 May, 1613.

Son and heir of Sir Anthony Hungerford of Stock, co. Wilts. He sat in the Long Parliament for Chippenham, and at the outbreak of the Civil War took command in Wiltshire on the Parliament side. He took part in the battles of Lansdowne and Roundway Down, and was the besieger of Lady Arundel in Wardour Castle. He died in 1648.


HUNTER, WILLIAM ALEXANDER.
Lawyer.
1844—1898.

Admitted 20 April, 1865.

Eldest son of James Hunter, granite polisher, of Aberdeen, where he was born 8 May, 1844. He was educated at Aberdeen, where he graduated "with the highest honours." At the Temple he took numerous prizes and exhibitions, and was called to the Bar 18 Nov. 1867. In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Roman Law in University College, London, which he exchanged for the Chair of Jurisprudence in 1878. He was a great advocate for the political emancipation of women, and admitted women to his classes in Roman Law. In 1882 he received the degree of LL.D. from Aberdeen. In 1885 he was elected to Parliament for Aberdeen, which he continued to represent till his retirement from ill-health in 1896. Whilst in the House he moved and carried the expunction of the proceedings in the previous Parliament of in re Bradlaugh; and his action by moving that the Scotch share of the spirit duty imposed by Mr. Groschen as compensation to licensed victuallers should be applied to Scotch elementary education, led to the establishment of free elementary education in England. He died 21 July, 1898. His published Works on Roman Law continue to be the standard guides for students.


HUNTINGDON, EARL OF. See HASTINGS, HENRY.