Excerpt from The House of Lords Cases on Appeals and Writs of Error, and Claims of Peerage, Vol. 3: During the Session 1850, 1851, and 1852In the Vacation al'ter Hilary Term, 1851, Lord Langdale, the Master of the Rolls, died, and in March, 1851, Sir John Romilly, then Attorney General, was appointed to the vacant office. Sir A. J. E. Cockburn, solicitor-general, was appointed attorney-general, and William Page Wood, Esq., one of her Majesty's Counsel, was appointed solicitor-gen eral, and was afterwards knighted.In the Vacation after Trinity Term, 1851, vice-chancellor Knight Bruce and Lord Cranworth were appointed Lords Justices in the Court of Chancery.

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