This is a list of known serjeants-at-law at the bar of England and Wales. After 1875, no more appointments to the order of serjeants-at-law were made.
Individuals labeled with "†" were appointed King's Serjeants, Queen's Serjeants, or () Serjeants to the Commonwealth.
Serjeants-at-law
edit1200–1299
edit- 1274–5: Thomas Weyland†[1]
- 1274–5: John of Mettingham†[1]
- 1274–5: John Cobham†[1]
- 1275: Elias de Beckingham†[1][2]
- 1280–1: Gilbert de Thornton†[1]
- 1280–1: William de Giselham†[1]
- 1291–2: William Inge†[1]
- 1292–3: Nicholas de Warwick†[1]
- 1296–7: Thomas le Mareschall†[1]
1300–1399
edit- 1309–10: Roger le Scotre†?[1]
- 1309–10: Edmund Passele†?[1]
- 1315–6: William Herle†[1]
- 1315–6: Gilbert de Toutheby†[1]
- 1315–6: Geoffrey le Scrope†[1]
- 1315–6: John Stonor†[1]
- 1320–1: John de Denum[1]
- 1329: Richard de Aldeburgh†[1][3]
- 1329: John Cambridge†[1]
- 1330: John de Trevanion†[1]
- 1331: William Denum†[1]
- 1331: John de Munden[1]
- 1331: William de Shareshull†[1]
- 1331: Richard de Bellishall[1]
- 1331: Thomas de Lincoln[1]
- 1334: William Scott†[1]
- 1334: Robert Parning†[1]
- 1334: Simon de Trewythosa†[1]
- 1334/5: Lucas de Burgh†[1][4]
- 1335: William de Hopton†[1]
- 1338: Arnold de Doresme†?[1]
- 1338: ? Spigurnel†[1]
- 1340: John Stouford†[1]
- 1341: William de Thorpe†[1]
- 1343: Thomas Fencotes†?[1]
- 1344: ? Rokel†?[1]
- 1345: Robert de Thorpe†[1]
- 1345: Henry Green†[1]
- 1345: Thomas Seton†[1]
- 1346: William de Notton†[1]
- 1350: ? Burton†?[1][4]
- 1354: William de Skipwith†[1]
- 1354: John Mowbray†[1]
- 1356: William de Fishide[5]
- 1357: John Knyvet[5]
- 1362: Edmund Chillery†[5]
- 1362: William Witchingham†[5]
- 1363: ? Richm.†?[5]
- 1366: Robert Bealknap†[5][2]
- 1366: Roger de Meres†[5]
- 1366: John Cavendish[5]
- 1366: John de Fencotes[5]
- 1366: ? Hillam[5]
- 1366: Roger Kirketon[5]
- 1366: ? Moris[5]
- 1366: Gillardus de Ufflete[5]
- 1370: Roger Fulthorpe†[5]
- 1370: Henry Percy†[5]
- 1371: ? Wakbruge†?[5]
- 1375: Walter Percy†?[5]
- 1375: David Hanmer†[5]
- 1377: John Holt[5]
- 1377: Robert Tresilian†[5]
- 1377: Walter Clopton†[5]
- 1377: John de Middleton†[5]
- 1383: John Cary[5]
- 1383: Edmund de Clay[5]
- 1383: John Hill[5]
- 1383: William Rickhill†[5]
- 1385: John Lockton†[5]
- 1390: John Markham†[5]
- 1390: John Wadham†[5]
- 1390: William Hankford†[5]
- 1390: William Brenchesley†[5][2]
- 1397: William Gascoigne†[5]
- 1399: Robert Tyrwhitt†[5]
- 1399: William Hornby†[5]
- 1399: Robert Hill†[5]
1400–1499
edit- 1401: John Read[5]
- 1401: William Frisby[5]
- 1402: Thomas Tildeslegh†[5]
- 1402: John Colepeper†[5]
- 1408: Richard Norton†[5]
- 1408: William Skrene†[5]
- 1410: John Preston[5]
- 1410: William Lodington†[5]
- 1410: James Strangways†[5]
- 1410: William Cheyne[5]
- 1410/1: John Barton, Jr.[5][3]
- 1410/1: Walter Askham[5][3]
- 1410: John Martin[5]
- 1410: William Wynyard[5]
- 1413: John Hals†[5]
- 1415: John Barton, Sr.[5][3]
- 1415: Thomas Lopham[5]
- 1415: William Poulet[5]
- 1418: William Babington[5][3]
- 1418: John Martin[5]
- 1418: William Pole[5]
- 1418: John Cottesmore[5]
- 1418: William de Westbury[5]
- 1418: John Juyn[5]
- 1418: Thomas Rolfe[5]
- 1421: William Paston[5]
- 1424: John Ellarker
- 1424: William Goderede†[5]
- 1424: William Hall[5]
- 1424: Richard Newton[5]
- 1424: Thomas Fulthorpe[5]
- 1424: William Chantrell[5]
- 1424: Robert Cavendish[5]
- 1424: John Weston[5]
- 1429: John Fortescue†[5]
- 1440: William Yelverton[5]
- 1440: John Markham†[5]
- 1440: John Portington†[5]
- 1443: Nicholas Aysshton[5][3]
- 1443: Richard Bingham[5][2]
- 1443: Ralph Pole[5]
- 1443: Robert Danby[5]
- 1443: John Prisot[5]
- 1443: Walter Moyle†[5]
- 1443: Peter Arderne[5][3]
- 1443: Robert Danvers†[5]
- 1453: William Hyndestone[5]
- 1453: William Laken[5]
- 1453: William Langford[5]
- 1453: William Boeff[5][2]
- 1453: Thomas de Littleton†[5]
- 1453: Richard Choke[5]
- 1453: John Needham†[5]
- 1448 or 1453: Thomas Billing†[5][2]
- 1463: Thomas Yonge[5]
- 1463: Richard Nele†[5]
- 1463: William Jenney[5]
- 1463: Guy Fairfax†[5]
- 1463: Thomas Brian[5][2]
- 1463: John Grenefield[5]
- 1463: John Catesby†[5]
- 1463: Richard Pigot†[5]
- 1472: Richard Higham[5]
- 1478: William Hussey[5]
- 1478: Humphrey Starkey[5]
- 1478: Thomas Tremayle†[5]
- 1478: John Sulyard[5]
- 1478: William Callow[5]
- 1478: John Vavasour†[5]
- 1478: Roger Townshend†[5]
- 1478: Thomas Brigges[5][2]
- 1478: Thomas Rogers[5]
- 1481: Walter Keeble[5]
- 1485: Thomas Wode†[5]
- 1485: Robert Rede†[5]
- 1485: John Haugh[5]
- 1485: John Fineux[5]
- 1485: William Danvers[5]
- 1485: Thomas Keeble†[5]
- 1485: Richard Jay[5]
- 1485: William Hody[5]
- 1485: John Huddersfield†[5]
- 1485: John Fisher†[5]
- 1494: Humphrey Coningsby†[5]
- 1494: John Butler[5][2]
- 1494: Thomas Keeble[5]
- 1494: Thomas Oxonbridge[5]
- 1494: Thomas Frowyk[5]
- 1494: Richard Higham†[5]
- 1494: John Kingsmill†[5]
- 1494: John Yaxley[5]
- 1494: John Mordaunt†[5]
- 1494: Robert Constable[5]
1500–1599
edit- 1502: William Cutler[6]
- 1503: ? Brooke[6]
- 1503/4: Robert Brudenell†[6][2]
- 1503: William Greville[6]
- 1503: Thomas Marrow[6]
- 1503: George Edgore[6]
- 1503: John More[6]
- 1503: John Cutler[6]
- 1503: Richard Elyot†[6]
- 1503: Lewis Pollard†[6]
- 1503: Guy Palmer†[6]
- 1503: William Fairfax[6]
- 1503: Thomas Piggot†[6]
- 1504: ? Griffin[6]
- 1505: John Newport[6]
- 1510: John Newdigate†[6]
- 1510: Brian Palmys, Jr.[6]
- 1510: John Carrell†[6]
- 1510: Richard Broke[6][2]
- 1510: John Roe[6]
- 1510: Anthony Fitzherbert†[6]
- 1521: William Rudhale[6]
- 1521: John FitzJames[6]
- 1521: John Port[6]
- 1521: Thomas Fairfax[6]
- 1521: John Spelman†[6]
- 1521: John Brown[6][2]
- 1521: William Shelley[6]
- 1521: Thomas Willoughby†[6]
- 1521: Robert Norwich†[6]
- 1521: Thomas Englefield[6]
- 1531: Humphrey Browne†[6][2]
- 1531: Thomas Audley†[6][3]
- 1531: Walter Luke[6]
- 1531: John Baldwin†[6][3]
- 1531: John Hynde†[6]
- 1531: Christopher Jenney†[6]
- 1531: John Denzel[6]
- 1531: Edmund Mervin†[6]
- 1531: Edmund Knightley[6]
- 1531: Roger Cholmeley†[6]
- 1531: Edward Montagu†[6]
- 1531: Roger York[6]
- 1531: John Pakington†[6]
- 1540: Thomas Rushedon[6]
- 1540: Robert Townshend†[6]
- 1540: John Harris†[6]
- 1540: Thomas Bromley†[6][2]
- 1540: John Carrell[6]
- 1540: Robert Chidley[6]
- 1540: William Coningsby[6]
- 1540: William Portman†[6]
- 1540: Edward Saunders†[6]
- 1540: James Hales†[6]
- 1540: James Missenden[6]
- 1542: Edmund Molyneux†[6]
- 1547: David Broke†[6][2]
- 1547: John Whiddon†[6]
- 1547: John Pollard[6]
- 1547: Robert Meynell[6]
- 1547: Richard Morgan[6]
- 1547: William Coke†[6]
- 1547: William Croke[6]
- 1552: James Dyer†[6]
- 1552: John Carrell[6]
- 1552: Thomas Gawdy, Sr.[6]
- 1552: Richard Catlin†[6]
- 1552: Ralph Rokeby[6]
- 1552: William Stanford†[6]
- 1552: William Dalison†[6]
- 1552: Robert Keilway[6]
- 1552: Robert Broke[6][2]
- 1555: John Caryl[6]
- 1555: John Prideaux†[6]
- 1555: George Wood[6]
- 1555: Francis Morgan[6]
- 1555: Robert Catlyn†[6]
- 1555: Anthony Browne[2]
- 1555: George St Poll[6]
- 1555: William Bendlowes[6][2]
- 1555: George Brown[6]
- 1555: John Walpole[6]
- 1555: William Rastell[6]
- 1558: Thomas Carus†[6]
- 1558: Reginald Corbet[6]
- 1558: John Walsh[6]
- 1558: John Southcote[6]
- 1558: William Symonds[6]
- 1558: George Wall[6]
- 1558: Richard Harpur[6]
- 1558: Ralph Cholmley[6]
- 1558: Nicholas Powtrell†[6]
- 1558: John Birch[6]
- 1559: Richard Weston†[6]
- 1566: ? Baker†[6][3]
- 1567: Thomas Gawdy[6]
- 1567: Roger Manwood[6]
- 1567: Christopher Wray†[6]
- 1567: Thomas Mead[6]
- 1567: Nicholas Barham†[6][3]
- 1567: John Jeffrey†[6]
- 1567: William Lovelace[6]
- 1572: Robert Monson[6]
- 1577: Robert Bell†[6][2]
- 1577: William Ayloffe[6][3]
- 1577: Edward Baber[6]
- 1577: Francis Wyndham[6]
- 1577: Francis Gawdy†[6]
- 1577: Edmund Anderson†[6][3]
- 1577: Robert Shute[6]
- 1577: Edward Fenner[6]
- 1578: Francis Rodes†[6]
- 1578: John Popham[6]
- 1580: John Clench[6]
- 1580: John Puckering†[6]
- 1580: Thomas Walmsley[6]
- 1580: William Fleetwood†[6]
- 1580: Edward Flowerdew[6]
- 1580: Thomas Snagge†[6]
- 1580: William Peryam[6]
- 1580: Robert Halton[6]
- 1584: Thomas Gent[6]
- 1584: Richard Shuttleworth[6]
- 1587: Robert Gardener[6]
- 1587: Robert Clarke[6]
- 1589: Christopher Yelverton†[6]
- 1589: Thomas Hamond[6]
- 1589: Thomas Harris[6]
- 1589: Edward Drew†[6]
- 1589: John Cooper[6]
- 1589: John Glanville[6]
- 1589: Thomas Owen†[6]
- 1589: Francis Beaumont[6]
- 1593/4: Richard Lewkenor[6]
- 1593/4: Peter Warburton[6]
- 1593: Richard Branthwaite[6][2]
- 1593/4: John Savile[6]
- 1593/4: John Heale†[6]
- 1593/4: Thomas Fleming[6]
- 1593/4: David Williams[6]
- 1593/4: Matthew Ewens[6]
- 1593/4: John Spurling[6]
- 1593/4: George Kingsmill†[6]
- 1593/4: Edward Heron[6]
- 1593/4: William Daniell†[6]
1600–1699
editStuart
Commonwealth
Post-Restoration
1700–1799
edit- 30 October 1700: John Green[7]
- 30 October 1700: Charles Whiteacre†[7]
- 30 October 1700: Thomas Gibbons[7]
- 30 October 1700: Thomas Bury[7]
- 30 October 1700: John Keene[7]
- 30 October 1700: Philip Neve[7]
- 30 October 1700: Nicholas Hooper†[7]
- 30 October 1700: Henry Turner[7]
- 30 October 1700: John Smith[7]
- 30 October 1700: Robert Tracy[7]
- 30 October 1700: Sir Joseph Jekyll†[7]
- 30 October 1700: James Mundy[7]
- 30 October 1700: John Hook[7]
- 30 October 1700: Lawrence Agar[7]
- 30 October 1700: John Pratt[7]
- 30 October 1700: William Hall[7]
- 30 October 1700: James Selby[7]
- 30 October 1700: Thomas Carthew[7]
- 5 July 1701: Sir Thomas Trevor[7]
- 23 June 1702: Sir Thomas Powys†[7]
- 23 June 1702: Robert Price[7]
- 8 June 1705: Thomas Parker†[7]
- 8 June 1705: Henry Chetham[7]
- 8 June 1705: James or John Grove[7]
- 8 June 1705: William Banister[7]
- 8 June 1705: St John Brodrick[7]
- 8 June 1705: Joseph Weld[7]
- 8 June 1705: John Bennett[7]
- 8 June 1705: Henry Lloyd[7]
- 8 June 1705: Richard Wynne[7]
- 8 June 1705: Richard Richardson[7]
- 8 June 1705: John Hoo[7]
- 8 June 1705: John Birch†[7]
- 8 June 1705: John Cheshire†[7]
- 8 June 1705: John Comyns[7]
- 8 June 1705: Thomas Richmond Webb[7]
- 11 February 1706: Robert Dormer[7]
- 12 May 1710: Robert Eyre[7]
- 12 May 1710: Thomas Pengelly†[7]
- 26 October 1714: Sir Peter King[7]
- 26 October 1714: Sir Samuel Dodd[7]
- 26 October 1714: Sir James Montagu[7]
- 24 January 1715: Francis Page†[7]
- 24 January 1715: William Earle[7]
- 24 January 1715: Henry Stevens[7]
- 24 January 1715: John Cuthbert[7]
- 24 January 1715: William Brydges[7]
- 24 January 1715: Thomas Hanbury[7]
- 24 January 1715: Edward Whiteacre[7]
- 24 January 1715: William Branthwayt[7]
- 24 January 1715: John Belfield[7]
- 24 January 1715: William Salkeld[7]
- 24 January 1715: Edward Miller[7]
- 24 January 1715: Nathaniel Mead[7]
- 24 January 1715: James Reynolds[7]
- 3 December 1716: John Fortescue Aland[7]
- 31 May 1722: Jeffrey Gilbert[7]
- 31 May 1722: Alexander Denton[7]
- 1 February 1724: Lawrence Carter†[7]
- 1 February 1724: Thomas Morley[7]
- 1 February 1724: Fettiplace Nott[7]
- 1 February 1724: Joseph Girdler, Jr.[7]
- 1 February 1724: John Baynes[7]
- 1 February 1724: John Raby[7]
- 1 February 1724: Richard Comyns[7]
- 1 February 1724: William Hawkins[7]
- 1 February 1724: William Chapple†[7]
- 1 February 1724: James Shepherd
- 1 February 1724: Giles Eyre†[7]
- 1 February 1724: Matthew Skinner†[7]
- 1725: Bernard Hale[7]
- 24 October 1727: Spencer Cowper[7]
- 24 October 1727: Edward Corbet[7]
- 17 November 1729: William Thompson[7]
- 17 November 1729: Simon Urlin?[7]
- 13 June 1730: William Lee[7]
- 13 June 1730: Thomas Birch†[7]
- 14 April 1733: Thomas Reeve[7]
- 14 April 1733: Martin Wright[7]
- 31 October 1733: Sir Philip Yorke[8]
- 4 June 1736: Thomas Parker†[8]
- 4 June 1736: Thomas Hussey[8]
- 4 June 1736: Abraham Gapper[8]
- 4 June 1736: Robert Price, Jr.[8]
- 4 June 1736: Michael Foster[8]
- 4 June 1736: Thomas Burnet†[8]
- 4 June 1736: William Wynne[8]
- 4 June 1736: John Agar[8]
- 4 June 1736: William Draper[8]
- 4 June 1736: Robert Johnson Kettleby[8]
- 4 June 1736: William Hayward[8]
- 4 June 1736: Samuel Prime†[8]
- 4 June 1736: Thomas Barnardiston[8]
- 4 June 1736: Edward Bootle[8]
- 4 June 1736: William Fortescue[8]
- 27 January 1737: John Willes[8]
- 11 June 1740: James Reynolds[8]
- 11 June 1740: Edward Willes†[8]
- 27 November 1740: Sir Thomas Abney[8]
- 27 November 1740: William Eyre[8]
- 11 February 1742: Thomas Denison[8]
- 11 February 1742: Edward Leeds†[8]
- 1743: Charles Clarke[8]
- 1 May 1745: Edward Clive[8]
- 23 June 1747: Heneage Legge[8]
- 23 June 1747: David Poole†[8]
- 23 June 1750: Nathaniel Gundry[8]
- 23 June 1750: Sidney Smythe[8]
1800–187.
edit- Michaelmas vacation 1853: George Atkinson[9]
- March 1854: Richard Crowder[9]
- Hilary vacation 1855: Humphrey William Woolryche[9]
- July 1855: James Shaw Willes[9]
- January 1856: George Bramwell[9]
- Hilary vacation 1856: George Hayes[9]
- Hilary vacation 1856: Gillery Pigott[9]
- Hilary vacation 1856: Mordaunt Lawson Wells[9]
- Hilary vacation 1856: William Ballantine[9]
- Hilary vacation 1856: John Humffreys Parry[9]
- November 1856: William Henry Watson[9]
- November 1856: Sir Alexander Cockburn[9]
- Easter vacation 1858: William Payne[9]
- Easter vacation 1858: John Cross[9]
- Easter vacation 1858: John Tozer[9]
- Easter vacation 1858: Charles Erdman Petersdorff[9]
- May 1858: Hugh Hill[9]
Notes
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap Haydn & Ockerby 1890, p. 406.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Pulling 1884, p. xvi.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Pulling 1884, p. xv.
- ^ a b Pulling 1884, p. xvii.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp cq cr cs ct cu cv cw cx cy cz da db dc dd de df dg dh di dj dk dl dm dn do dp dq dr ds dt du dv dw Haydn & Ockerby 1890, p. 407.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp cq cr cs ct cu cv cw cx cy cz da db dc dd de df dg dh di dj dk dl dm dn do dp dq dr ds dt du dv dw dx dy dz ea eb ec ed ee ef eg eh ei ej ek el em en Haydn & Ockerby 1890, p. 408.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz Haydn & Ockerby 1890, p. 411.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac Haydn & Ockerby 1890, p. 412.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Haydn & Ockerby 1890, p. 413.
References
edit- Baker, J. H. (1984). The Order of Serjeants at Law. London: Selden Society.
- Haydn, Joseph; Ockerby, Horace (1890). The Book of Dignities. London: W. H. Allen and Co.
- Pulling, Alexander (1884). The Order of the Coif. London: William Clowes and Sons, Ltd.