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| Keywords: Robert Malcolm Kerr, Vanity Fair, 1900-11-22.jpg Judges No 59 Caricature of Mr Commissioner Kerr From http //www christies com/LotFinder/lot_details aspx intObjectID 4647143 Commissioner Robert Malcolm Kerr 1821-1902 the son of John Kerr 1791-1853 a writer in Glasgow and Elizabeth Malcolm Educated at Glasgow University then become a barrister in Lincoln's Inn He was a Judge at the Guildhall Court in the City of London for forty-three years He twice failed to get into Parliament and despite being offered an extremely generous pension he refused to retire from his position at the City of London Court <br> Quote from original publication He administers a kind of rough and ready justice that irritates many and pleases few His worst faults are his inclination to decide cases when only part heard and his occasional disregard of the existing state of the Law For years he has successfully defied the High Court by persisting in refusal to trouble himself by taking notes of his cases He does not believe in juries and it is his special delight to ridicule the Mayor's Court which sits over the way <br> Caption reads the City of London Court Vanity Fair ISOdate 1900-11-22 en Digitised version from http //iris lib virginia edu/rmds/vanityfair/source/kerr html University of Virginia Fine Arts Library 1900-11-22 Spy Creator Leslie Ward PD-old-auto 1922 DEFAULTSORT Kerr Robert Malcolm Vanity Fair caricatures judges and magistrates Caricatures by Leslie Ward in Vanity Fair 1821 births 1902 deaths Judges from the United Kingdom | ||||
