Admitted 27 April, 1874.
Third son of Edward Sheppard Symes, M.D., of London. He was educated at University School and College, and appointed to the Indian Civil Service alter examination in 1873. He served as Assistant Magistrate and Collector in the North-West Provinces in 1875, and as Assistant Commissioner in Burmah in 1876. He had charge of the Delhi State prisoners in 1886, and in May, 1897, became Chief Secretary to the Government. He was made a K.C.I.E. in Jan. 1900, He died at Rangoon 10 Jan, 1901.
Admitted 5 June, 1839.
Only son of Rev. Jelinger Symons, Rector of Radnage, co. Buckingham, formerly Vicar of Monkland, Herefordshire. He was educated at Cambridge, where he graduated in 1832. He was called to the Bar 9 June, 1843. He was employed by the Home Office in inquiries into the state of the handloom weavers in Lancashire, and subsequently (1846) was a Commissioner to collect information concerning education in Wales. In 1848 he became one of H. M. Inspectors of Schools, and he took great interest in the reformation of juvenile criminals. He died at Malvern in 1860.
He has left behind him a number of writings, chiefly on social, political, educational, and legal subjects, including the following: A Few Thoughts on Volition and Agency (1833); Arts and Artizans at Home and Abroad (1839); Outlines of Popular Economy (1840); The Attorney and Solicitor's Act (1843); Parish Settlements (1844); Railway Liabilities (1846); A Plea for Schools (1847); On the Condition and Treatment of the Dangerous Glasses (1849); School Economy (1852); A Scheme of Direct Taxation (1853); The Industrial Capacities of South Wales (1855); Lunar Motion (1856); Sir Robert Peel as a Statesman (1856); Milford, Past, Present, and Future (1857); William Burke, the Author of Junius (1859); Rough Types of English Life (1860).
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Admitted 9 February, 1682-3.
Son of Theobald, first Earl. He served in the Spanish Army and became a Privy Councillor, and in 1688 was sent on a mission to Vienna. He was killed at the Boyne in 1691.
There is no record of his admission in the Registers, but his Arms are up in Middle Temple Hall. He was the elder son of Francis Talbot, fifth Earl. He was a distinguished courtier and soldier, and served under the Protector Somerset in his invasion of Scotland 1557. He succeeded to the Earldom in 1560, and was made a K.G. in 1561. In 1569 he was entrusted by Queen Elizabeth with the charge of Mary Queen of Scots, whose guardian he was for fourteen years, when he relinquished his trust to Sir Ralph Sadler. He married as his second wife the daughter of the first Earl of Rutland, the famous "Bess of Hardwick," a union which embittered the latter part of his life. He died 18 Nov. 1590, and was buried in Sheffield Parish Church, where, it is said, twenty thousand people attended the funeral.
