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EDWARD FOSS (1787-1870)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 731 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD See also:FOSS (1787-1870)  , See also:English lawyer and biographer, was See also:born in See also:London on the 16th of See also:October 1787 . He was a See also:solicitor by profession, and on his retirement from practice in 184o, he devoted himself to the study of legal antiquities . His See also:Judges of See also:England (9 vols., 1848–1864) is a See also:standard See also:work, characterized by accuracy and extensive See also:research . Biographia Juridica, a See also:Biographical See also:Dictionary of English Judges, appeared shortly after his See also:death . He assisted in See also:founding the Incorporated See also:Law Society, of which he was See also:president in 1842 and 1843 . He died of See also:apoplexy on the 27th of See also:July 1870 .

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