GREAT MEN'S BODIES
every barrister and solicitor will be willing to congratulate him when he is promoted to the highest position in the land.
"Although one of the wealthiest among the rich men of the Bar—and all his riches have been earned—he still works with the passion of youth. Nearly every morning he is at work before six o'clock; mastering the details of some complicated case, and enjoying the cup of coffee he prepares with his own hands.
"Unlike Sir Charles Russell, who works late at night, the Attorney-General believes that the morning is the best time to work; the mind and body then being fresh and free; and many a morning the sun has appeared above the house-tops at Kensington to find Sir Richard deep in the mysteries of a patent."—Law Gazette, 1891.
But the Gazette continues: "It was as an athlete that he distinguished himself above all his fellows. In his palmy days he was the smartest runner either Cambridge or Oxford has produced. His equal has never been seen in the two-mile inter-university race. The great physical strength which made him Popular at Cambridge has made him successful in the Temple. Only a man of exceptional power of endurance could have done the work the Attorney-General has been called upon to do. It is easy to see, as he walks along one of the corridors in the courts, or across the lobby of the House of Commons to his private room, that he possesses a frame of extraordinary power. The broad shoulders the well-proportioned body, narrowing at the loins; the massive features furrowed by responsibility and thought, and bearing the unmistakable stamp of ceaseless intellectual activity, tell their tale with ease."
"Such is the man whose income from his profession each year is thirty thousand pounds, the fees marked on some of his briefs being enormous—his practice being confined to commercial law, railroads, and patents."—Law Gazette, August, 1892.
