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SIR JULIUS CAESAR (1557-1558-1636)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 943 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JULIUS CAESAR (1557-1558-1636)
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English judge, descended by the
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female
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line from the dukes de' Cesarini in Italy, was born near
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Tottenham in Middlesex . He was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and afterwards studied at the university of Paris, where in the
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year 1581 he was made a doctor of the
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civil law . Two years later he was admitted to the same degree at Oxford, and also became doctor of the
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canon law . He held many high offices during the reigns of Elizabeth and James I., including a judgeship of the admiralty court (1584), a mastership in
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chancery (1588), a mastership of the court of requests (1595), chancellor and under treasurer of the
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exchequer (16o6) . He was knighted by King James in 1603, and in 1614 was appointed master of the rolls, an office which he held till his
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death on the 18th of
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April 1636, He was so remarkable for his bounty and charity to all persons of worth that it was said of him that he seemed to be the almoner-general of the nation . His
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manuscripts, many of which are now in the
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British Museum, were sold by
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auction in 1757 for upwards of £500 . See E . Lodge,
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Life of
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Sir
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Julius Caesar (181o) ; Wood,
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Fasti Oxonienses, ed . Bliss; Foss, Lives of the Judges .

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Sir Julius is a direct ancestor of Robert Erskine Childers via the Chesters who married Reverend Charles Childers grandfather of REC.
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