James Sowton

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Biography

Lawyer of 37 Great James Street, Bedford Row, Middlesex, wrote to the Compensation Commissioners on behalf of the mortgagees and counterclaimants for Elmes estate in Antigua.

Listed at 27 [note 27 not 37] Great James Street, Bedford Row, an attorney of the Court of Kings Bench, Westminster, and solicitor in the Court of Chancery in 1826 when Charles Cowdery was articled as his clerk.


Sources

T71/887 Antigua claim no. 275 (Elmes). T71/1606: letter, dated 26/10/1837, from James Sowton, 37 Great James Street, Bedford Row, demanding a rehearing on behalf of the mortgagees and counterclaimants.

Ancestry.com, UK, Articles of Clerkship, 1756-1874 [database online].


Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Occupation
Lawyer

Associated Claims (1)

£22 4s 2d
Other association

Addresses (1)

Great James Street, Bedford Row, London, Middlesex, London, England