Men-at-the-Bar/Pears, Edwin

by Joseph Foster

Pears, Edwin, LL.B. London Univ. 1869, first in 1st class honours jurisprudence and Roman law, elected president of European bar in Constantinople 1880, practises before the consular court of the Levant, a member of the Midland circuit, sometime acting deputy judge at Constantinople, editor of Prisons and Reformatories, author of The Fall of Constantinople, Constantinople correspondent of Daily News, a student of the Middle Temple 12 Nov., 1867, exhibitioner constitutional law and legal history, called to the bar 17 Nov., 1870 (2nd son of Robert Pears, of York, manufacturer); born 18 March, 1835; married 22 Dec, 1857, Mary, dau. of Capt. J. R. Hall.

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