Edward Carson case was regarded at the time as an important political case as Carson and the Unionists maintained that it showed the fundamental immorality of free trade. George Cadbury recovered the derisory sum of one farthing in damages in a case described as one of Carson's triumphs. Carson was also the victorious counsel in the 1910 Archer-Shee Case, exonerating a Royal Naval College, Osborne cadet of the charge of theft. The cadet was from a quite prominent Roman Catholic banking family, and educated at Stonyhurst. On this case, Terence Rattigan based his play "The Winslow Boy". The fictional barrister, Morton, is
Martin Archer-Shee Noel Pemberton Billing offered Archer-Shee a duel by boxing in public for charity; Archer-Shee declined. At the 1918 general election Archer-Shee was elected MP for the new constituency of Finsbury, parliamentary boundaries having been altered by the Representation of the People Act 1918. He held the seat at the 1922 general election, and was knighted in 1923. He was defeated in 1923 by his Labour Party opponent, George Masterman Gillett. He attempted to re-enter parliament in the following year, but failed to be elected at Peckham. This was to be his last electoral contest: although his name was proposed when