"[Somers was one of the] brightest ornaments of the bar in the late seventeenth century."

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Lord Chancellors (United Kingdom)Fellows of the Royal SocietyJuristsWhig (British political party) politicians
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Geoffrey Holmes, Augustan England: Professions, State and Society, 1680–1730 (1982), p. 117