Men-at-the-Bar/West, Henry Wyndham

by Joseph Foster

West, Henry Wyndham, Q.C., M.P. Ipswich 1868-74 and since Dec., 1883, attorney-general of the duchy of Lancaster since 1861, recorder of Manchester since 1865 and judge of the Salford hundred court of record since 1865, recorder of Scarborough 1858-65, J.P. Lancashire, B.A., Christ Church, Oxon, 1845, from Eton, a member of the Northern circuit, a student of Lincoln's Inn 5 May, 1845, went to the Inner Temple 27 March, 1848, where he was called to the bar 5 May, 1848, Q.C. 22 Feb., 1868, bencher 28 April, 1868 (eldest son of Martin John West, Esq., bar.-at-law); born 7 Nov., 1823; married 22 Dec., 1870, Violet Katherine Hamilton, 3rd dau. of late Walter Frederick Campbell, Esq., of Islay, N.B.

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