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William Henry Ashurst Snr 1792 – 1855 was a British Solicitor who founded Ashurst Morris Crisp at 6 Old Jewry Street, a radical ideologist, who, with his son William Henry Ashurst Jnr, supported every progressive cause from the 1832 Reform Bill onwards, including Antislavery, Chartism, Poor Relief, the Postal Service, Feminism, the Peace Movement in Britian, and Nationalist Movements abroad, and homeopathy.

William Henry Ashurst was the father in law of James Stansfeld, and a friend of John Epps, Giuseppe Mazzini,

William Henry Ashurst founded the Friends of Italy Society and the People’s International League.

Ashurst Morris Crisp was the law firm for James Morrison of the Fore Street Warehouse (the ‘Napoleon of Shopkeepers‘), who on his death in 1854 left a personal fortune second only to Nathan Rothschild,

William Henry Ashurst was on the Medical Council of the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square, and he was a colleague of John Epps, and a member of The Association for the Protection of Homeopathic Students and Practitioners (address 6 Old Jewry Street), a member of the English Homeopathic Association,

William Henry Ashurst supported Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in her right to be seated at the American Convention in 1840, and his daughter, Elizabeth A Ashurst 1820? – 1850, also accompanied him to Antislavery meetings.

William Henry Ashurst and his family also supported Giuseppe Mazzini, through whom he met Thomas Carlyle,

William Henry Ashurst was on the Medical Council of the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square alongside W T Berger, A E Blest, W A Case, James Chapman, John Chapman, Edward Charles Chepmell, Clare, Edward Cronin, Paul Francois Curie, J M Douglas, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Thomas Engall, John Epps, George Fearon, G H Fletcher, John Fowler, Gill, Joseph Glover, F L R Suss Hahnemann, Robert Hamilton, Joseph Hands, Sydney Hanson, Amos Henriques, Thomas Higgs, JT H Johnstone, Henry Kelsall, Joseph Laurie, Charles Powell Leslie, Henry Victor Malan, John Miller, Augustus Henry Moreton, G P Nichols, Chas Pasley, Paterson, A P Phelps, George Rogers, J Rogers, Mathias Roth, Frederick Sandoz, Phillip Sandoz, W Stephenson, Samuel Sugden, Allan Templeton, Major Tyndale, William Warne, A Wilkinson, James John Garth Wilkinson, David Wilson, S Wilson, George Wyld,

William Henry Ashurst was born in London 11 Feb. 1792. His father had led an aimless existence, under the impression — due to rumours about his infancy and his likeness to the eminent judge of the name — that he would be some day recognised as belonging to a distinguished family.

William Henry’s perception of his father’s weakness stimulated his spirit of independence. After some education at a dame school he entered a solicitor”s office, where his employer rewarded his industry by giving him his articles.

He gained a good practice as a solicitor, though his marriage at the age of nineteen compelled him to increase his income by copying work at night and by writing for the press. He read much.

Of interest:

William Henry Ashurst 1819 – 1879, son of William Henry Ashurst,

Ashurst Solicitors is still in existence, and offering graduate recruitment today:

Ashurst invites applications from graduates of all disciplines at any stage in their careers for training contracts beginning in September 2011 and March 2012.

A history of radical thinking Ashurst’s first 100 years were dominated by the three men who gave their name to the firm: William Ashurst, John Morris and Sir Frank Crisp (we used to be known as Ashurst Morris Crisp).

Through their strong personalities and firmly held beliefs, they each contributed to the guiding principles that still pervade the way we do business today. Collectively, they shaped the practice, the culture and the unique approach to providing legal advice that makes Ashurst one of the most respected and admired law firms.

William Ashurst (1792-1855) founded the firm in 1822 and was a leading radical. He declared he would not pay his taxes until the Reform Act of 1832 was passed and he was opposed to the payment of tithes to the established church. He longed for universal suffrage: the property qualification, he declared, was a case of “bricks against men”.

He campaigned successfully for the introduction of the penny post and the abolition of the so called “taxes on knowledge”, the duties levied on newspapers.

John Morris (1823-1905) masterminded the rescue of a number of banks and other institutions in the City “crash”of 1866 and was the pre eminent liquidation lawyer of his time.

He was involved in the reorganisation of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada, the financing of the Forth Bridge and the completion of the Inner Circle Line on the London Underground.

Morris was also one of the original subscribers to the Telephone Company Limited and we became the first law firm to use the telephone (our number was 15).

Sir Frank Crisp (1843-1919) was renowned for his company formations and flotations.

When the Marconi scandal broke in 1913, Crisp composed the Attorney General’s statement to the House of Commons, defending him against allegations of insider dealing, and thus helped to save the Asquith government.

He lived at Friar Park, Henley which later became George Harrison’s home and was the inspiration for George Harrison’s song “The Ballad of Frankie Crisp”.

Ashurst today. Today, we are an international law practice with offices in Abu Dhabi, Brussels, Dubai, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Munich, New York, Paris, Singapore, Stockholm and Tokyo, and a liaison office in New Delhi.

We have over 200 partners and there are around 1,800 members of the firm in total.