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5 de may. de 2015 · The barrister as thespian was emerging. With the advent of the popular press such men would become celebrities. The role was tailor-made for a showman, and none mastered it better than the tall, handsome young Rugby and Cambridge man, Edward Marshall Hall, who in 1882 was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple.
Edward Marshall Hall Edward Marshall Hall was one of the most prominent legal figures of his day, and known as 'The Great Defender' because of his passionate defence of murder suspects in high profile cases. Born in Brighton in 1858, he was a tempestuous youth; he was removed from Rugby School and was sent to become a tea merchant.
Use this image. Sir Edward Marshall Hall ('Statesmen. No. 759. "Southport Division"') by Sir Leslie Ward. chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 24 September 1903. NPG D45189. Find out more >. Buy a print.
Edward Marjoribanks: For the Defense: The Life of Sir Edward Marshall Hall, London: Victor Gollancz, Macmillan 1929; Edward Marjoribanks: Famous Trials of Marshall Hall, Penguin, 1989. Nina Warner Hooke, Gil Thomas: Marshall Hall, Arthur Barker, London 1966. Sally Smith: Marshall Hall: A Law Unto Himself, Wildy Simmons & Hill Publishing, London ...
7 de may. de 2014 · When Sir Edward Marshall Hall died in 1927 it was the end of an era. Tall, strikingly handsome and charming, the barrister was the finest advocate ever seen in the English criminal courts. Known as 'The Great Defender' as he fought tooth and nail for his clients, those in the shadow of the hangman's noose were often saved from execution by his dramatic and eloquent defence.
- Edward Marjoribanks
Sir Edward Marshall Hall KC saved more people from the hangman's noose than any other known barrister. In an age of inadequate defence funding, minimal forensic evidence, a rigid moral code making little allowance for human passion and a reactionary judiciary, his only real weapons were his understanding of human psychology and the power of his personality.
Sir Edward Marshall Hall KC saved more people from the hangman's noose than any other known barrister. In an age of inadequate defence funding, minimal forensic evidence, a rigid moral code making little allowance for human passion and a reactionary judiciary, his only real weapons were his understanding of human psychology and the power of his personality.
