Author: Anna Maria Wilhelmina Pickering

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-31

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13: 9781333417635

Excerpt from Memoirs of Anna Maria Wilhelmina Pickering My grandfather's paternal uncle, Lawyer Stanhope, settled at Horsforth. He was a man of very remarkable ability, but he preferred the country and his hunting, to glory, and more than once refused a Judgeship, because he did not wish to live in London. Nor, perhaps, would he have gained much by accepting such promotion; for, as it was, he was well known from one end of the county to the other, and swept the West Riding of briefs. The county men all preferred taking their business to t'ould lawyer, rather than intrusting anyone else with it: all family dis putes were referred to him, and people deposited their money with him in preference to putting it into the bank. I was struck by coming across his name in some book I was reading lately, where he was mentioned as being one of the cleverest and most distinguished lawyers of his day. There is a portrait of him at Cannon Hall, in his full bottomed wig and robes, representing a fine and intellectual face. He died long before I was born. My grandfather brought with him once from Ireland a clerk called Hardy, who settled at Horsforth, and was followed by so many of his relations that the place became quite peopled with Hardys. Hardy's son, who became my grandfather's steward, used often to be asked to come into the drawing-room at Cannon Hall, but he would never do so; he kept entirely to the steward's room, and would never even sit down in my grandmother's presence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.