. The ways of our railways . ittee maybe mentioned the late Lord Grimthorpe (who wasknown at the Parliamentary Bar first as Mr. Denison,and then as Sir Edmund Beckett, before he attaineda peerage on his retirement), the late Mr. SamuelPope, Mr. C. A. Cripps, Sir Ralph Littler, Mr. Pember,Mr. Balfour Browne, Mr. Ernest Moon, Mr. HonoratusLloyd, and Mr. Ernest Page. Sir William Harcourtalso practised at the Parliamentary Bar in his youngerdays and held many railway briefs. The Parlia-mentary Bar is a very close corporation, and it isexceedingly difficult for a new-comer to obtain re-cognition. B
. The ways of our railways . ittee maybe mentioned the late Lord Grimthorpe (who wasknown at the Parliamentary Bar first as Mr. Denison,and then as Sir Edmund Beckett, before he attaineda peerage on his retirement), the late Mr. SamuelPope, Mr. C. A. Cripps, Sir Ralph Littler, Mr. Pember,Mr. Balfour Browne, Mr. Ernest Moon, Mr. HonoratusLloyd, and Mr. Ernest Page. Sir William Harcourtalso practised at the Parliamentary Bar in his youngerdays and held many railway briefs. The Parlia-mentary Bar is a very close corporation, and it isexceedingly difficult for a new-comer to obtain re-cognition. But if a chief railway solicitor takes upa young man of ability and briefs him frequently,his fortune is made. Both Lord Grimthorpe, whowas leader of the Parliamentary Bar some twentj^years ago, and Mr. Ernest Moon, who is one of itsbrightest ornaments at the present day, had thead\antage of being sons of chairmen of railway com-panies—Sir Richard Moon and Sir Edmund BeckettDenison, being the men, above all others, who made. ^ — ^ ^^■c o ■= ^ - i:-l i 11? ^ « »» ■2 --:5 THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT. 289 the London and North-Western and Great NorthernRailways, respectively, the great undertakings theyare to-day. Parliamentary agents come very little before thepublic, and the nature of their work, which is verylargely of a technical and formal character, is notsuch as to appeal to the popular imagination. Hereagain the business is in the hands of a comparativelyfew men, and new firms find it difficult to obtainan oitrce into what is probably one of the mostlucrative, as it is one of the most select departmentsof the legal profession. The veteran Sir TheodoreMartin, who wTote the Life of the Prince Consort and married Helena Faucit, is the doyen of Parlia-mentary agents. He came to London from Edin-burgh in 1845, and has worked at Westminster inthe passing of private Bills from that date until thepresent time (1905). In addition to their work in the Committee Roomsat Westminst
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