MAUGHAM

Robert . Articled to George Barrow of 34 Thread needle st. London, attorney; solicitor in London 1817–57; one of founders of the Law Institution, Chancery lane, London, and secretary April 1825, it soon became the Law Society, secretary to his death, the building in Chancery lane was opened 28 June 1831 and the society was granted a royal charter 22 Dec. 1831 and a new charter 5 June 1845; established the Legal Observer or journal of jurisprudence Nov. 1830, edited it down to Dec. 1856 when it was merged in The Solicitors’ Journal which began 3 Jany. 1857; in 1856 a sum of more than £600 was collected for him by the members of the society, part of which was invested in a valuable piece of plate presented to him by the council 12 June 1856; published A treatise on principles of the usury laws 1824; The law of attornies, solicitors and agents 1825; A treatise on the law of literary property 1828; Outlines of criminal law, comprising public wrongs 1837; Outlines of the law of real property 1842. d. at the Incorporated law society, Chancery lane, London 16 July 1862. bur. Nunhead cemetery 22 July. Solicitors’ Journal , vi 727 (1862); Parliamentary report on legal education (1846) 158–68, portrait at Incorp. law soc. Note. —His son Robert Ormond Maugham b. 1814, admitted solicitor 1846, solicitor to British emba y at Paris to his death, d. from cancer of the stomach at 25 Avenue d’ Antin, Paris 24 June 1884.