THE LEADERS OF THE OLD BAR OF PHILADELPHIA.

BY HORACE BINNEY.

(Continued from page 27.)

EDWARD TILGHMAN.

I place in advance of some remarks of the present day a short sketch of this admirable lawyer, written a few years since for a work which was published in Philadelphia.

"TILGHMAN (Edward); an eminent lawyer of the State of Pennsylvania, at the Bar of Philadelphia. He was born at Wye, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, on the 11th of December, 1750, of an old and respectable family, which in the paternal line emigrated to the province of Maryland from Kent County in England, about the year 1662. His academical education was received in the City of Philadelphia, under teachers who were successful in accomplishing him in the ancient classics, to an extent which, at a subsequent time, now happily passed away, it was the poor fashion to undervalue or decry. His education in the law was obtained principally in the Middle Temple, of which he was entered a student about the year 1771; and in the years 1772 and 1773 he became an assiduous attendant upon the Courts of Westminster Hall, taking notes of the arguments in Chancery before Lord Apsley, and of such men as Wallace, Dunning, Davenport and Mansfield, before Lord Mansfield and the Judges of the King's Bench. His note-books are still extant in the possession of his descendants; and one of them was of remarkable use upon the argument of Clayton against Clayton, in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in explaining an obscure report by Sir James Burrow, of Lord Mansfield's judgment in Wigfall v. Brydon, which was cited before the same Judges in Goodright v. Patch, in 1773, and then put upon its true ground. After finishing his course at the Middle Temple, he returned VOL. XIV.-10