Archibald Levin Smith
Sir Archibald Levin Smith (born August 26, 1836 in Salt Hill , Sussex , † October 20, 1901 ) was a British lawyer who held the second highest judicial office in the English legal system as Master of the Rolls from 1900 until his death in 1901 .
Life
Smith began after the visit of Eton College in 1854 a degree in Classical Philology at the Trinity College of the University of Cambridge , which he in 1858 with a Bachelor of Arts finished (BA). He then studied there law and was in the years 1857, 1858 and 1859 for the rowing team at the University of Cambridge at the traditional Boat Race against the rowing team of the University of Oxford , where in the race in 1859, the boat sank his team.
After being admitted to the bar ( Inns of Court ) of Inner Temple , he took up a position as a barrister on November 17, 1860 and was appointed to one of the so-called bencher of the Inner Temple Bar on April 12, 1883 for his long service as a lawyer .
In 1883 Smith joined the judicial service and was appointed judge of the High Court of Justice , the highest civil court responsible for England and Wales . There he worked as a judge in the Chamber for Civil Matters (Queen's Bench Division) until 1892 . Connected with this was the knight bachelor's degree in 1883, so that from then on he carried the suffix "Sir".
Smith was then in 1892 as Lord Justice of Appeal judge at the Court of Appeal , Commissioner for England and Wales Court of Appeal .
Most recently, on October 24, 1900, he succeeded Richard Webster, 1st Baron Alverstone, as Master of the Rolls and thus as Chairman of the Civil Senate of the Court of Appeal. Until his death a year later, he was the second highest judge in the English legal system after the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales . In March 1901 he also became chairman of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts . After his death on October 20, 1901, Richard Collins followed him as Master of the Rolls .
His marriage to Isobel Fletcher in 1867 resulted in two sons.
literature
- Smith, Archibald Levin . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume 5 : Pace – Spyers . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1953, pp. 540 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- William D. Rubinstein: The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. 2011, ISBN 0-230-30466-4 , p. 926 ( books.google.de ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ London Gazette . No. 27295, HMSO, London, 19 March 1901, p. 1937 ( PDF , English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Smith, Archibald Levin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salt Hill , Sussex |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 20, 1901 |