Edward Ward (judge)
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Sir Edward Ward was an English lawyer and judge. He became chief baron of the exchequer, and is best known as the judge in the state trial for piracy of Captain Kidd.
Sir Edward Ward, 1702 engraving by Robert White.
William Russell, Lord Russell was an English Country Party politician. He was a leading member of the Country Party, forerunners of the Whigs, who during the reign of Charles II of England laid the gr
Edward Ward (judge)
…was called to the bar in 1670, and obtained a practice in the exchequer court. Connected with the Whig faction, Ward appeared as one of the counsel for William Russell, Lord Russell, in July 1683. On 6 November 1684 he was leading counsel for his father-in-law, Thomas Papillon, in the action for false imprisonment brought against…
Portrait by Gerard Soest
William, Lord Russell
The Trial of William, Lord Russell, in 1683 by Sir George Hayter, painted in 1825 as a commission by his descendant The 6th Duke of Bedford
William, Lord Russell (1639–1683), in the Tower of London – painter: Mather Brown