Sir Charles Willie Mathews
Vanity Fair Print
£50.00
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Charles Willie Mathews trained in the law and became a barrister of the Middle Temple in 1872. In 1888, he was appointed as a Senior Counsel and by 1901 had been made a bencher of the Middle Temple. In 1908 Mathews was appointed as Director of Public Prosecutions, a post he held until his death. He was involved in a number of high-profile cases, including the Penge murder (1877), the trial of the prisoner Dr Lampson (1882) and the Oscar Wilde libel suit (1895).
Condition - good
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 6 February 1892
40x19cm