About the Author
Edward Stanley Roscoe (1849-1932) served as Registrar of the Admiralty Court and editor of the Edinburgh Review. He wrote Rambles with a Fishing-Rod (1883); George Selwyn, His Letters And His Life (1899); Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, Prime Minister, 1710-1714 (1902); The Growth of English Law: Being Studies in the Evolution of Law and Procedure in England (1911); Lord Stowell (1916);and A History of the English Prize Court (1924).
