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Attorney General's Chambers,

Hongkong, January 25, 1913.

I have the honour to apply most respectfully that you

will be graciously pleased to move that I may be appointed of His

Majesty's Counsel for Hongkong.

I took my degree of B. A. at Oxford in 1694.

I was called to the Bar in 1896 and am a Member of the

Inner Temple and Midland Circuit.

I graduated M. A. in 1897.

I practised at the English Bar until 1902 and can with

confidence refer to the Lord Chief Justice of England Lord Justice

Fletcher Houlton and Mr. A. J. Walter, King's Counsel, for any

recommendation which may be required relative to my work during

that period.

I was appointed Commissioner of Patents in the Transvaal

in 1902; a Justice of the Peace and an Advocate of the Supreme

Court of the Transvaal in the same year; a Member of the Legisla-

tive Council of the Transvaal in 1904; and a Legal Adviser to the

Transvaal and Chairman of Committees of the Legislative Council

in 1906.

For any pbservation upon my work whilst in the Transvaal

I would refer to Sir Richard Solomon, K.C.B., G.C.M.G. K.C.V.0.

K.C.

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I was appointed King's Advocate of Cyprus and a member

of the Legislative and Executive Councils of that Island in 1907.

I was an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Cyprus and practised

privately in cases in which the Government is not concerned.

In July 1910 Iapplied to be appointed of His Majesty's

1366 Counsel for Cyprus but owing to the peculiar circumstances of that Cyprees.

Island's tenure, my application could not be complied with; the

of State then Secretary/for the Colonies kindly writing in reply to my