Men-at-the-Bar/Cookson, Montague Hughes

by Joseph Foster

Cookson, Montague Hughes, Q.C., D.C.L. (late fellow), St. John's Coll., Oxon, 1861, mathematical scholar 1853, double 1st class 1856, practises in chancery division (Mr. Justice Pearson's court), lecturer and reader to Incorporated Law Society 1862–6, examiner in civil law to Oxford Univ. 1872, a student of Lincoln's Inn 9 June, 1856 (then aged 24), Eldon law scholar 1856, studentship Jan., 1859, called to the bar 10 June, 1859, Q.C. 23 June, 1875, bencher 27 May, 1878 (6th son of Christopher Cookson, Esq., late of Wellington, Somerset, dec.); born 24 Feb., 1832; married 6 April, 1869, Blanche A. E., younger dau. of Rev. E. C. Holt.

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