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William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher.
British lawyer, judge and politician (1815-1899)
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About William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher
William Baliol Brett, 1st Viscount Esher, PC, known as Sir William Brett between 1868 and 1883, was a British lawyer, judge, and Conservative politician. He was briefly Solicitor General under Benjamin Disraeli and then served as a justice of the Court of Common Pleas between 1868 and 1876, as a Lord Justice of Appeal between 1876 and 1883 and as Master of the Rolls. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Esher in 1885 and further honoured when he was made Viscount Esher on his retirement in 1897.
Everything about William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher →- Occupation
- rower, judge, politician, lawyer
- Position held
- Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, member of the 19th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- August 13, 1815
- Died
- May 24, 1899