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I have generally had a good legal friend. 

 After Mr. Justice Hawkins came Sir Charles 

 Russell, later known as Lord Russell of Killowen, 

 Lord Chief Justice. He was an extremely kind- 

 hearted, genial man. Whenever he had a big 

 case coming on in the Courts he ran down to 

 Kingsclere so that he might study his brief in 

 quietude. He would ride out with me on the 

 Downs in the morning, and, on returning to 

 Park House, retire to his room. We saw no 

 more of him until the evening. He made his 

 longest stay with me when he was working up 

 the Venezuelan case. If I remember rightly, he 

 had to undertake that after the inquiry had been 

 going on for several months, having been called 

 upon to fill the place of a barrister who died. 

 This necessitated his familiarising himself with 

 the mass of evidence that had already been given. 



Sir Charles was very fond of whist, and always 

 insisted on playing a rubber or two after dinner. 

 On one occasion he and my wife were partners 

 against my son-in-law (Mr. Leader) and myself. 

 My wife was very tired and went to sleep in the 

 middle of a rubber. This brought from Sir 

 Charles the remark: ** It is impossible to win a 

 rubber with a sleeping-partner." Another time 

 when Sir Charles was staying with us I invited 

 Father Reilly, a Catholic priest at Newbury, to 

 dine and spend the evening with us. Father 

 Reilly was a good sportsman and a very genial 



