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Show ENGLAND'S LORD CHIEF JUSTICE ' The appointment of Sir Rufus Isaacs, the attorney general, as lord chief justice was announced in London Lon-don the other day. He succeeds Baron Alverstone, who recently resigned. re-signed. Sir J. A. Simon, ' solicitor general, is appointed to the attorney generalship. Stanley Owen Buckmas-ter Buckmas-ter succeeds to the solicitor generalship. general-ship. Baron Alverstone has been created a viscount. The career of Sir Rufus Isaacs disproves the idea that remarkable and rapid rises in fortune can occur in America alone. When a boy Rufus Isaacs ran away and joined a ship's company for Rio de Janeiro. At twenty-five, although a member of the London stock exchange, he was marked as a financial failure, and yet, ten years later, he had been admitted to the bar of the Middle Temple, for which he began studying when twenty-six years old, he had been created a king's counsel, and had the larg- .est practice of any barrister in England, and probably the world. He Is the son of Joseph M. Isaacs, a London merchant. He received 'his education at the University College school and in Brussels and Hanover. His parents destined him for Cambridge, but the idea of study became irksome irk-some to him, and it was then that he ran away. He soon tired of the life of a sailor and returned to London and became a stockbroker. He learned, however, that business in London was as uncongenial to him as life at sea. It was at this juncture that he met his future wife, Miss Alice Edith Cohen, daughter of an American merchant who had moved to London. She became engaged to the young broker and advised him to study law. He at :flrst remonstrated, but finally consented, and she used to help him in the evenings with his studies. |