NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Spankie, Robert DNB: Spankie, Robert (1774-1842), lawyer LBT ID: RoSpank1842 VIAF ID: 58637254 LOC ID: no90004165 | B/BAP: 1774-04-17 DIED: 1842-11-02 |
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Educated at St. Andrews, he was a reporter and editor at the Morning
Chronicle before beginning a legal career in 1803; he was advocate-general in
Bengal (1817-23) and MP for Finsbury Boroughs (1832-35). | |