Where a man calls himself by a name which is not his name, … - William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher

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Where a man calls himself by a name which is not his name, he is telling a falsehood.

William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher

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William Baliol Brett, 1st Viscount Esher, PC (13 August 1815 - 24 May 1899), known as Sir William Brett between 1868 and 1883, was a British lawyer, judge, and Conservative politician. He was briefly Solicitor-General under Benjamin Disraeli and then served as a justice of the Court of Common Pleas between 1868 and 1876, as a Lord Justice of Appeal between 1876 and 1883 and as Master of the Rolls. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Esher in 1885 and further honoured when he was made Viscount Esher on his retirement in 1897.

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