A REMARKABLE CAREER.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12587, 18 October 1911, Page 8

A REMARKABLE CAREER.

>Jr Justice Willis, who died m London recently, used to tell his friends with apparent pride that he "had .never watahed a horse race, never ridden m a tube railway, never been m debt and neyer smoked. The record was a strange one; for a man whose daily duties bought him. into touch with every phase of London, life, but Judge Willis was a remarkable man. • When he., was a mere lad lie left home as a result of a family quarrel and decided that he would' go to ''Australia. , But no ship was sailing immediately, and young Willis took a billet m a millinery shop m St. Paul's Chiii'chyard. He spent six yeiars m the shqp and m his Bpare hours he studied Latin and Greek, with the result that Boqn after "he came of age he was able to iiiatriculate at London .University. In 18viJ3 he began the study of law and speedily passed the necessary examinations and got his first footing m the cbtirfcs. He once said that it was possible for any single man to live on £40 a year, and added that he had done it himself m the early days of his career, wh,en'he had a room m the Mile End road and walked across London to his work every day. He became a famous judge and a great litefary scholar as wolf as a wit with some reputation.