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Auction: 20025 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 631

Great Britain
Queen Victoria
1869 (26 Feb.) "Licence to Plead" addressed to Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, QC who is thereby licenced in the trial of Samuel Charles. Signed "Victoria R" and "Gathorne Hardy", then Home Secretary.

Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, a judge noted to for his retirement from his post after succumbing to insanity following his judgement in the Mrs. Maybrick case, and for being the father of J.K. Stephen - Jack the Ripper according to the author, Michael Harrison.

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