Stock Photo - Alfred Henry Thesiger, Lord Justice of Appeal, 1880. He was called to the bar in 1862, and in 1873 he became a queen's counsel. In 1877 he was appointed attorney-general to the Prince of Wales. In the same year he was appointed lord justice of the court of appeal at the early age of thirty-nine, and was sworn of the privy council. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (Conducted by G. C. Whitfield.) (London, 1876-1883).