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Men-at-the-Bar/Mowbray, Rt. Hon. Sir John Robert, Bart.

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Men-at-the-Bar
by Joseph Foster
Mowbray, Rt. Hon. Sir John Robert, Bart.
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Mowbray, Rt. Hon. Sir John Robert, Bart., so created 3 May, 1880, P.C., M.P., M.A. (1839), hon. D.C.L., Christ Church, Oxon, 1869, from Wesminster School, church estates commissioner since 1871, member of council King's Coll., London, since 1877, M.P. Oxon Univ. since 1868, Durham 1853-68, judge advocate-general 1858-9 and 1866-8, J.P., D.L. Durham, J.P. Berks, P.C. 1880, assumed the additional surname and arms of Mowbray by royal licence 26 July, 1847, a student of the Inner Temple 15 Oct., 1834 (then aged 19), called to the bar 19 Nov., 1841 (only son of Robert Stribling Cornish, of Exeter, architect); born 3 June, 1815; married 19 Aug., 1847, Elizabeth Gray, only child of George Isaac Mowbray, Esq., of Bishopwearmouth, co. Durham, and of Yapton House, Sussex, and has issue (see Foster's Baronetage).

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