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-{{g}}An apocryphal leading commercial silk, who features in many of the [[Jolly Contrarian]]’s favourite cases. Grew up on a plantation in Gudjurat province. Often crosses swords with the then [[Master of the Rolls]], Lord Justice [[Cocklecarrot M.R.]]
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+[[File:Jolly contrarian.png|450px|thumb|center|A rare portrait of {{jerrold}}, believed to have been made by [[Otto Büchstein]] in depths of his dengue fever in Mandalay in 1905.]]
+}}{{jerrold}} is an apocryphal commercial [[Queen’s Counsel|silk]], once a leading light of the [[courts of chancery]] but these days a little past his finest moments, who nonetheless features in many of the [[Jolly Contrarian]]’s favourite cases. Sir Jerrold grew up on a plantation on the outskirts of old Bombay, fought in the Boer War, and found his commercial feet acting for the managers of the [[Slavenburg]] Bank. Often crossed swords with the then [[Master of the Rolls]], {{Cocklecarrot}}
+Sir Jerrold was a patron of the arts, and loved opera in particular. According to one telling of the story, it was he who commissioned [[Otto Büchstein]]’s fabled, never completed and now long-lost tragic-comic opera ''[[Die Schweizer Heulsuse]]'' as [[Büchstein]] lay dying of tropical diseases in a Burmese infirmary.
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+*[[Otto Büchstein]] and ''[[Die Schweizer Heulsuse]]''
+*[[Queen’s Counsel]]
 *[[Conclusive evidence]]
+*{{cocklecarrot}}
+*{{mrspinterman}}