LEGAL INCOMES IN ENGLAND

Dunstan Times, Issue 1264, 21 May 1886, Page 3

LEGAL INCOMES IN ENGLAND

The acceptance of the Lord Chancellorship by Sir Farrer Herschel involves a considerable pecuniary sacrifice. The salary is LIO.OOO ayear, and it is understood that of late years Sir Farrer Herschei’s professional receipts have more nearly reached L 20,000. But there are compensations, since the Lord Chancellor receives for life a retiring pension of 1.5000 a year. The most conspicuous instance of sacrificing monetary position for official rank is to be found in the case of Sir Horace Davey. Mr Davey had for many years been receiving an income of considerably over 1,20,000 a year As Solicitor General he gets 1.6000 and a knighthood, with no retiring pension. There are fees which probably bring the official income up to L9OOO a year. Still, a man who has for some time been earning, accoi’ding to some accounts. L30,0: ; 0 a year, may think himself privileged to accept a fourth of that salarv. Mr Davey is a most indefatigable worker. One of his associates says that he thinks nothing, when in an important case, of working r i lit off twenty-four hour's at a stretch without takrng sleep. Sir Bichard Webster, the AttorneyGeneral in the late Conservative Government's also a tremendous worker, keeping his lamp burning far into the night when he has any special case on. Sir Richard Webster attributes his immunity from illness, in spite of his regular condiiion of overwoik, to the fact that he is a regular tee-totaller.—-Exchange.