English Country Attorney

Academic Articles

The Country Attorney in Late Eighteenth-Century England: Benjamin Smith of Horbling [Lincolnshire].Law and History Review, vol. 8, no. 2 (Autumn 1990): 237–271.

The Smiths of Horbling: Country Attorneys.Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 54, no. 2 (Spring 1991): 143–176.Credit: © Huntington Library Quarterly

The Smith-Kelham-Langdale Nexus: Country Attorneys, Family Connections, and London Business in the Early Nineteenth Century.Lincolnshire Historical and Archaeological Journal, vol. 29 (1994): 17–27.Credit: First published in Lincolnshire Historical and Archaeological Journal, vol. 29

A Career in the Law: Clerkship and the Profession in Late Eighteenth-Century Lincolnshire.” Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, vol. 31 (1996): 29–41.Credit: First published in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, vol. 31

Lawyer Professionalism in Rural England: Changes in Routines and Rewards in the Early Nineteenth Century.” Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, vol. 32 (1997): 25–39.Credit: First published in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, vol. 32

Marketing Property in Eighteenth-Century England: Lawyer History in the Huntington Library’s Stowe Collection.” Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 62, nos. 1-2 (1999): 115–143.Credit: © Huntington Library Quarterly

From Provincial to Professional: Attorney Robert Kelham (1717–1808) in Eighteenth-century London.The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present, vol. 25, no. 2 (2000): 96–109.Credit: © Taylor & Francis

Partners and their Times: The Smith Firm in History.” Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, vol. 37 (2002): 34–43.Credit: First published in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, vol. 37

Provincial to Professional: The Mentalité of Attorney James Coulthard (1718–86).Quinnipiac Law Review, vol. 22 (2003): 213–33.

The Smith Firm’s Partners and their Times: A Postscript.” Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, vol. 39 (2004): 46–51.Credit: First published in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, vol. 39

From Victorian Lincolnshire to L’Époque de Worth Paris.Lincolnshire Past and Present, vol. 67 (Spring 2007): 13–19.Credit: First published in Lincolnshire Past and Present, vol. 67

Lawyering and Politics in Lincolnshire: the Smith-Heathcote Connection, 1760s to 1850s.” Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, vol. 44 (2009): 31–41.Credit: First published in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, vol. 44

An Oath of Allegiance to King-George III, 1781-1804.” Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, vol. 48 (2013): 56–58. Credit: First published in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, vol. 48

Allegiance to King George III: Loyalism, Property and Taxes in the Lives of South Lincolnshire Countrymen, 1781-1804.” Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, vol. 48 (2013): 59–69.Credit: First published in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, vol. 48