Pitman
SIR ISAAC, an English stenographer; land, Jan. the British School of Barton-on-Humber an. 4, 1813. He was master of ; born in Trowbridge, Engin 1831, established the school at Wottonunder-Edge in 1836 and removed to Bath in 1839. He was the inventor of the phonetic system of short-hand writing and published his first treatise on the sey, and in 1909 became Chancellor of tice of the Supreme Court of New Jerthe State. President Taft appointed Pitney to the Supreme Court, Mar. 13, From 1901 to 1908 he was associate jus- 1912. served in man; born in Hayes, England, May 28, studied law and was elected to Parliawas educated at Cambridge University; ment in 1780. He was as strongly op-