Augustus Uthwatt, Baron Uthwatt

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Augustus Andrewes Uthwatt, Baron Uthwatt PC (* 25. April 1879 in Ballarat , Victoria , Australia ; † 24. April 1949 ) was a British lawyer who most recently as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary , due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a Life Peer and Member of the House of Lords .

Life

After visiting the Ballarat Clarendon College graduated Uthwatt studying law at Balliol College of Oxford University and received his legal approval to the Bar Association (1904 Inns of Court ) of Gray's Inn . He then took up a job as a barrister and was legal advisor to the Ministry of Food during the First World War between 1915 and 1918 . For his legal services, he became a so-called "Bencher" of the Bar Association of Gray's Inn in 1929 and worked in 1936 as legal advisor to the Treasury ( HM Treasury ).

Uthwatt, who also served as Treasurer of the Gray's Inn Bar Association between 1939 and 1940, was Chairman of the Committee on Responsibility for Repair of Premises Damaged by Hostilities in 1939, and the Committee on Responsibility for the Repair of Premises Damaged by Hostilities in 1939 Liability for war damage due to existing contracts ( Committee on Liability for War Damage to the Subjects of Contracts ) and the Committee on Principles of Assessment of War Damage to Property and 1941 the Committee of Experts for Compensation and Improvements ( Expert Committee on Compensation and Betterment )

In 1941 Uthwatt was judge of the Chamber for Economic Matters ( Chancery Division ) at the High Court of Justice responsible for England and Wales and held this judge's office until 1946. At the same time he was beaten to a Knight Bachelor in 1941 and since then has had the suffix "Sir".

By a letters patent dated January 9, 1946, Uthwatt, who also became Privy Councilor , became a member of the House of Lords in the as a life peer with the title Baron Uthwatt , of Lathbury in the County of Buckingham, under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 Appointed to the nobility and initially worked as lord judge ( Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ) until his death .

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SURNAME Uthwatt, Augustus, Baron Uthwatt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uthwatt, Augustus Andrewes, Baron Uthwatt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Ballarat , Victoria , Australia
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1949