HOLT, SIR JOHN

HOLT, SIR JOHN
   English lawyer, born at Thame, Oxfordshire; called to the bar in 1663; was a prominent counsel in the State trials of his age, and rose to be Lord Chief-Justice of the King's Bench under William III., an office whose duties he discharged with unflinching integrity and fairness (1642-1710).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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