James Mather

The radical imperialist

In the summer of 1780, at the height of the Gordon Riots, a London mob raised a cry of ‘kill the lawyers’ and headed for the Inns of Court.

  • ‘Orientalist Jones’: Sir William Jones, Poet, Lawyer, and Linguist, 1746-1794

    Michael J. Franklin

    OUP, pp. 396

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