Men-at-the-Bar/Collier, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Porrett
Collier, Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Porrett, P.C, member of judicial committee of the Privy Council since Nov., 1871, Q.C. 1854, M.P. Plymouth 1852-71, sometime recorder of Penzance, judge advocate of the fleet and counsel to admiralty and navy 1859-63, solicitor-general 1863-6, attorney-general 1868-71, a justice of the court of common pleas in Nov., 1871, author of Law relating to Mines, etc., B.A., Trin. Coll., Camb., 1843, a student of the Inner Temple 4 June, 1838 (then aged 20), called to the bar 27 Jan., 1843, patent of precedence 8 July, 1854, called to the bench 21 Nov., 1854 (eldest son of John Collier, Esq., M.P., of Plymouth); born 21 June, 1817; married 19 April, 1844, Isabella, dau. of William Rose Rose, Esq., of Woolston Heath, co. Warwick, and has issue.
- Bigod's Hall, Dunmow, Essex; 7, Chelsea Embankment, S.W.; Brooks', Athenæum, Reform, and Oxford and Cambridge Clubs.