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Description: | Oil on canvas. Brent Spencer Follett was the son of a timber merchant from Topsham, near Exeter. His brother, William Webb (1796-1845), was a lawyer and politician, who became Attorney General in 1844. His sister, Elizabeth, married the physician Richard Bright (1789-1858) in 1826.
Follet was MP for Bridgwater. He was called to the bar in 1833 and made Q.C. in 1851. In October 1847 Follet married the daughter of Walter Skirrow Q.C., a commissioner in bankruptcy. In August 1862 Lord Westbury, the Lord Chancellor, appointed Follett Registrar of the Land Registry under a newly passed act ‘to facilitate the proof of title and the conveyance of real estates.’ Follett later became Chief Registrar. He died at Cannes on 23 January 1886. | Subjects: | Chief Land Registrar Brent Spencer Follett QC 19th century costume barrister male portrait man | Temporal: | 1878 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | James Archer | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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