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in London, but returned to Plymouth to train as a solicitor. Foot qualified in 1902, and in 1903, with his friend Edgar Bowden, he set up the law firm Foot and Bowden, which as Foot-Anstey still exists.
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Foot was married to Eva Mackintosh, daughter of Angus Mackintosh. Eva died in 1946. Foot married Catherine Elizabeth Taylor, née Dawe (born Liskeard 1894) in St Germans in 1951, who survived him.
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and would wake at five in the morning in order to read them. In old age he taught himself Greek, so as to read the New Testament in the original.
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The Foots also had two daughters, Margaret and Jennifer, and one other son, Christopher, who went into the family law practice. Hugh's son,
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on India. His championing of the poor of the subcontinent earnt him the sobriquet of "the member for the Depressed Classes".
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He died on 13 December 1960 in his sleep at his home in Callington, Cornwall, England. He was 80.
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in 1945, and was chairman from 1953 to 1955, a distinction rarely granted to a solicitor.
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In 1936 he was elected to serve on the Liberal Party Council. He became a
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Foot also built up a library of over 70,000 books at his home near
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on India in 1930–31 and on Burma in 1931 and was also on the Joint
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Four of the Foots' sons followed their father into public life.
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Stanley Goodman, ‘Foot, Isaac (1880–1960)’, rev. Mark Pottle,
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Foot, John (1998). "Isaac Foot". In Duncan Brack (ed.).
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Index

The Right Honourable

Secretary for Mines
Ramsay MacDonald
Manny Shinwell
Ernest Brown
Member of Parliament
Bodmin
Gerald Harrison
John Rathbone
Charles Hanson
Gerald Harrison
President of the Liberal Party
Clement Davies
Violet Bonham-Carter
Elliott Dodds
Plymouth
Callington
Liberal
Dingle
Hugh
John
Michael
Paul
Sarah
Oliver
Solicitor
Liberal
Plymouth
Admiralty

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