Charles Bowen, Baron Bowen

Sir Charles Bowen in a caricature by Leslie Ward in Vanity Fair magazine (March 12, 1892)

Charles Synge Christopher Bowen, Baron Bowen QC PC (* 29. August 1831 in Woolaston , Gloucestershire , † 10. April 1894 ) 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 attending the Rugby School graduated Bowen studying law at Balliol College of the University of Oxford and wrote during his studies article for the weekly Saturday Review and the magazine The Spectator . In 1861 he was admitted to the bar ( Inns of Court ) of Inner Temple and subsequently worked as a barrister . Between 1872 and 1879 he was working on the one hand as Permanent legal counsel of the Treasury ( Treasury ) and the other as a recorder (city Richter) of Penzance .

In 1879 he became a judge in the Chamber for Civil Matters ( Queen's Bench Division ) at the High Court of Justice responsible for England and Wales and held this judge's office until 1882. At the same time, he was promoted to Knight Bachelor in 1879 and has since been named "Sir". After completing this judicial activity, he was appointed judge ( Lord Justice of Appeal ) in 1882 at the Court of Appeal , the court of appeal responsible for England and Wales, where he worked until 1893. In addition, he was appointed Privy Councilor in 1882 . As Lord Justice of Appeal he worked, among other things, in the judgments of the Edgington vs. Fitzmaurice (1885) and Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company (1892) with.

Last Bowen was a Letters Patent of September 23, 1893 due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a life peer with the title Baron Bowen , of Colwood in the County of Sussex for a member of the House of Lords in the nobility called and worked until his death a few months later as Lord Judge ( Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ), whereby he did not take part in any hearing and only cast a vote once during this time. Finally, he served as chairman of a commission to investigate the Featherstone miners' uprising in 1893, in which two striking miners were shot by soldiers.

Bowen's younger brother was Edward Ernest Bowen , a direction teacher and principal at the prestigious Harrow School . His son was the Labor Party - politician Josiah Wedgwood , who for 36 years the constituency Newcastle-under-Lyme as a deputy in the House of Commons had represented, in 1924 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster was 1942 and Baron Wedgwood was charged.

Web links

• Charles Bowen at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Lords of Appeal in Ordinary 1876-2009 in Peerages