Ernest LAW

Background

LAW, Ernest was born on August 26, 1854. Son of late Honourable William To wry Law and Matilda, daughter of Sir Henry C. Montgomery, Baronet.

Education

A Roman Catholic, he was educated at Oscott College and University College, London, from which he graduated Bachelor in 1874.

Career

He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1878 and practised on the South-Eastern Circuit and at the Parliamentary Bar. From 1891 to 1896 he was Comptroller and Secretary of the Provident Institution Savings Bank. An expert on Tudor history, Law was appointed official historian at Hampton Court Palace and given a residence there, The Pavilion, where he lived until his death.

He was also a Shakespeare scholar and a scholar of historic gardens, designing the knott garden and the Elizabethan borders of Shakespeare"s garden at New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, where he was a trustee of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

He also designed the sunken garden at the Brompton Hospital Sanatorium at Frimley and the garden theatre at Esher Place. He authenticated the Cunningham Papers at the Public Record Office, the 17th-century account books of the Office of Revels which had been bought by the British Museum in 1868.

His best-known work was A Short History of Hampton Court (1897), abridged from his longer histories. He also wrote History of Hampton Court, Royal Gallery of Hampton Court Vandyck"s and Holbein"s Pictures at Windsor Castle, Kensington Palace, Shakespeare as a Groom of the Chamber (1910), Some Supposed Shakespeare Forgeries (1911), Dancing on Ice (1911), More about Shakespeare Forgeries (1913), England’s First Great War Minister (1916), The Tempest as originally produced at Court (1920), Mantegna"s Triumph of Julius Cæsar, as now hung in the old Orangery at Hampton Court (1921), Commonwealth or Empire (1921), Shakespeare's Garden (1922), Henry VIII"s Great Kitchen at Hampton Court, and Hampton Court Gardens: Old and New (1926).

A great beauty in her younger days and a recluse after her husband"s death, she was one of the longest residents of the palace.

Achievements

• He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (Central Bank) in the 1920 New Year War Honours and Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (Commander of the Royal Victorian Order) in the 1926 New Year Honours.

Works

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  • The History of Hampton Court Palace ...: Stuart Times. 1898

    (This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)

  • The History Of Hampton Court Palace FACSIMILE

    (HIGH QUALITY FACSIMILE REPRODUCTION: Law, Ernest Philip A...)

  • The History Of Hampton Court Palace FACSIMILE

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  • The History of Hampton Court Palace - Volume I Tudor Times

    (Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating bac...)

  • The History of Hampton Court Palace - Scholar's Choice Edition

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  • The History of Hampton Court Palace, Volume 3 - Scholar's Choice Edition

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  • The history of Hampton Court palace ...

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  • The History of Hampton Court Palace

    (Hardcover reprint of the original 1898-1903 edition, Volu...)

  • The History of Hampton Court Palace

    (Hardcover reprint of the original 1898-1903 edition, Volu...)

  • The History of Hampton Court Palace

    (Hardcover reprint of the original 1898 edition, Volume 1;...)

  • The history of Hampton Court Palace

    (This book was digitized and reprinted from the collection...)

  • The History Of Hampton Court Palace V2: Stuart Times (1898)

    (This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of th...)

  • The History of Hampton Court Palace Volume 3; Orange and Guelph times. 1st ed. 1891

    (This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)

  • The History of Hampton Court Palace Volume 2; Stuart times. 1898

    (This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)

  • The Royal Gallery of Hampton Court Illustrated; Being an Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the Queen's Collection at That Palace, with Descripti

    (This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)

  • The History of Hampton Court Palace; Tudor times. 1890

    (This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)

  • The History of Hampton Court Palace Volume 3

    (This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)

  • The History of Hampton Court Palace Volume 1; Tudor times. 1890

    (This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)

  • The history of Hampton Court Palace Volume 2

    (This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)

  • The History of Hampton Court Palace ...: Tudor Times. 1890

    (This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)

  • The history of Hampton Court Palace Volume 1

    (This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)

  • The History of Hampton Court Palace ... Illustrated, etc. Vol. II

    ( Title: The History of Hampton Court Palace ... Illustra...)

  • The History of Hampton Court Palace ... Illustrated, etc.

    ( Title: The History of Hampton Court Palace ... Illustra...)

  • The history of Hampton Court palace Volume 3.Orange and guelph times

    (The history of Hampton Court palace. Volume 3.Orange and ...)

  • The History of Hampton Court Palace: 1-2:2.ed. Illustr. Vol: 3 1891 Hardcover

    (Lang:- English, Vol:- 3, Pages 653. Reprinted in 2015 wit...)

  • A History of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor Times

    (London 1885 George Bell and Sons. Two other volumes by La...)

  • The History of Hampton Court Palace Vol III
  • The History of Hampton Court Palace, Volume 3 - Scholar's Choice Edition by Law, Ernest Philip Alphonse (2015) Paperback
  • The History of Hampton Court Palace, Volume 3 by Law, Ernest Philip Alphonse (2014) Paperback
  • The History of Hampton Court Palace ...: Tudor Times. 1890 by Law, Ernest Philip Alphonse (2013) Paperback
  • The Royal Gallery of Hampton Court

Membership

Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Club: Travellers’.

• Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Club: Travellers’.

Connections

Spouse 1890, Katherine Helen Campbell,daughter of John Russell of New Forge, Company Antrim, and widow of Captain Rupert Lonsdale, Companion of St. Michael and St. George

Father:

Honourable William To

Mother:

Matilda

Spouse:

Katherine Helen Campbell