Old Vigornians - Samuel Butler, Chris Tarrant, John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, the King's School, Worcester, Samuel Foote, Rik Mayall (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Samuel Butler, Chris Tarrant, John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, The King's School, Worcester, Samuel Foote, Rik Mayall, Sophie Le Marchand, Derek Bell, Timothy Garden, Baron Garden, Edward Kelley, Clive Everton, Edward Winslow, Richard Bacon, Jonathan Raban, Henry Bright, Thomas Hall, John Wall, Luke Narraway, Jonathan Nott, Zac Purchase, John Vaughan, Stephen Cleobury, Francis Potter, John Beale, Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson, Ashley Fox, Thomas Good, Seiriol John Arthur Evans, Mark Webster, Jack Longland, Tim Dinsdale, Jeremy Thompson, Geoffrey Mulcahy, Philip Strong, John Field Lister, Stephen Darlington, John Porter-Porter, Anthony Lewis Elliott Williams, Jonathan Dow, Nicholas Cleobury. Excerpt: John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, PC, FRS (4 March 1651 - 26 April 1716) was an English Whig jurist and statesman. Somers first came to national attention in the trial of the Seven Bishops where he was on the their defence counsel. He published tracts on political topics such as the succession to the crown, where he elaborated his Whig principles in support of the Exclusionists. He played a leading part in shaping the Revolution settlement. He was Lord High Chancellor of England under King William III and was a chief architect of the union between England and Scotland achieved in 1707 and the Protestant succession achieved in 1714. He was a leading Whig during the twenty-five years after 1688. He was born at Claines, near Worcester, the eldest son of John Somers, an attorney in large practice in that town, who had formerly fought on the side of the Parliament, and of Catherine Ceaverne of Shropshire. After being at school at Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall, and Worcester he was entered as a 'gentleman commoner' at Trinity College, Oxford, and afterwards studied law under Sir Francis Winnington, who became solicitor-gene...