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| '''Peter Holford''' (–1804) was an English barrister. He was a ] from 1750 and a ].<ref name="acad">{{acad|id=HLFT736P|name=Peter Holford}}</ref> | '''Peter Holford''' (–1804) was an English barrister. He was a ] from 1750 and a ].<ref name="acad">{{acad|id=HLFT736P|name=Peter Holford}}</ref> | ||
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| He was a younger son of Sir Richard Holford, master in chancery, and his second wife Elizabeth Stayner, daughter of Sir Richard Stayner RN.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Bernard |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland |date=1871 |publisher=Harrison |page=636 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=161CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA636 |language=en}}</ref> He was educated at ], and matriculated at ] in 1735, and was ] in 1740.<ref name="acad"/> | |||
| ==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
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Peter Holford (–1804) was an English barrister. He was a master in chancery from 1750 and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Life
He was a younger son of Sir Richard Holford, master in chancery, and his second wife Elizabeth Stayner, daughter of Sir Richard Stayner RN. He was educated at Westminster School, and matriculated at [[St John' College, Cambridge in 1736. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1735, and was called to the bar in 1740.
Notes
- ^ "Peter Holford (HLFT736P)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- Burke, Bernard (1871). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Harrison. p. 636.