Jerome William Knapp (legal), Kays Portraits, 1800/1835.

[ JEROME WILLIAM KNAPP, LTD., DEPUTY-CLERK OF ARRAIGNS. ] (legal) undated, about 1800. Mr. Knapp was an English barrister of the Middle Temple, and succeeded his father as Deputy-Clerk of Arraigns on the home circuit, which office he filled with much ability for a period of nearly thirty years. He came to Edinburgh in 1794, as Clerk of Arraigns to the Commission of Oyer and Terminer for the trial of Watt and Downie, accused of high treason-the former of whom suffered capital punishment. Copper etched print published in Kay's Edinburgh Portraits, 1837-8. Size 8 x 12 cms plus margins. Ref E398