Excerpt from A Memoir of the Right Honourable Sir Edward Fry, G. C. B: Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal, Ambassador Extraordinary and First British Plenipotentiary to the Second Hague Conference 1827-1918 After my Father's retirement from the Bench a firm of publishers suggested that he should write an autobiography for them to publish. Such an idea was not congenial to his mind, but when it was suggested to him that he should write an autobiography for his family he agreed to consider the matter, and before long began to put the earlier materials together; and as the later episodes of his life followed, a little prompting induced him to keep the manuscript pretty well up to date. The latest entries were made about three years before his death. The pages were certainly not written for publication, but for perusal by his children after his death, but the manu script having been left to me and to my discretion I have felt at liberty to draw upon it largely in preparing this Memoir, which could not have been produced without this foundation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.