Robert Henry Bullock-Marsham Police Magistrate

Details

Sir Leslie Matthew Ward 'Spy' (1851-1922)
Robert Henry Bullock-Marsham
Police Magistrate
signed 'Spy' (lower left)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
12 x 7½ in. (30.5 x 19 cm.)

Provenance

A.G. Witherby.
Original Drawings for the Cartoons in Vanity Fair; Sotheby's, London, 28 - 29 October 1912, lot 297 (£2. 15.s. to Edwards).

Literature

Morris Cohen, The Bench and Bar, Great Legal Caricatures from Vanity Fair by Spy, published, 1996.

Exhibited

Hendon, Church Farm House Museum, Vanity Fair 1869-1914, 10 September - 18 December, 1983.

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Lot Essay

Robert Henry Bullock-Marsham (1833-1913), Police Magistrate, was educated at Merton College, Oxford where he obtained honours in mathematics and, more memorably, played cricket in the University Eleven. Bullock-Marsham was called to the Bar in 1860 and joined the South-Eastern Circuit. He was appointed Magistrate at Greenwich and Woolwich in 1879 then, afterwards, Westminster in 1897. In 1899, he went to Bow Street, where he was noted for his sound temper and compassion.

Young men and women who have strayed from the path of honesty have received at his hands an opportunity to reform, and his kindly words of warning advice have often had a far greater effect in checking a criminal career than would a hefty sentence.... He never displays the least sign of anger, and he favours no-one.

Vanity Fair, 'Men of the Day', No. 985, 1905.

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