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William Llewellyn Hacon

1860–1910

Barrister. Eldest son of William Mackmurdo Hacon. Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and Lincoln’s Inn. Called to the bar, 1885. In 1896, with the designer Charles de Sousy Ricketts, set up Vale Press, which published fine editions, including The Vale Shakespeare.

Sources

Men-at-the-bar

ODNB s.v. Ricketts, Charles de Sousy

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 29 January 2018)

Bibliography

Men-at-the-bar: Men-at-the-bar: a biographical hand-list of the members of the various inns of court, including Her Majesty’s judges, etc. By Joseph Foster. London: Reeves & Turner. 1885.

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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