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Temple. He went as a pupil to the chambers of Mr. Lawson Walton-afterwards Attorney-General, and then one of the busiest juniors at the Common Law Bar-and was called in 1887.
Work came to him at once, and within two or three years he had acquired a substantial practice in the County Courts, and was beginning to be known to the Judges in the High Court. He had a magnificent constitution. Isaacs seemed to be made of steel, and it was once said of him that he only went to bed in the Long Vacation. As a matter of fact, when the sittings were in full swing, it was his habit, after a very short night's rest, to set to work upon his briefs at 5 or 6 o'clock in the morning, and he would then come down to the Temple fresh and smiling for the day's work. No person of ordinary constitution could have worked as he did with impunity.
In 1904, he became Liberal member for Reading, and, while maintaining his enormous practice at the Bar, managed to be assiduous in his attendance at the House, and a not infrequent speaker.
In 1910, he became Solicitor-General, and a few months later, he was appointed Attorney-General.
In June 1912, he was made a member of the Cabinet, an honor which no Attorney-General had held till then.
In 1913, he became the Lord Chief Justice. In January 1914, he was created a baron and took the title of Lord Reading. He was created a G. C. B. in the New Year Honours of 1915.
In the autumn of 1915, at the request of the Govern ment, he went to the United States as one of the negotia. tors of an American loan.
It was a mission of greater delicacy. His success was
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