Charles Swinfen Eady, 1st Baron Swinfen

Charles Swinfen Eady, 1st Baron Swinfen

Sir Charles Swinfen Eady (Caricature in Vanity Fair magazine , February 13, 1902)

Charles Swinfen Eady, 1st Baron Swinfen PC Kt QC (* 31 July 1851 in Chertsey , Surrey ; † 15. November 1919 ) was a British lawyer , who from 1918 until his death in 1919 as Master of the Rolls , the second highest judicial office in English legal system and was raised to the nobility in 1919 as Baron Swinfen and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death only fourteen days later .

Life

Eady graduated from school with a degree in law and after his admission to the bar ( Inns of Court ) of Inner Temple began a job as a barrister . He later earned a doctorate in law (LL.D.) from the University of London , whose Senate he had been a member since 1879. For his long-time lawyer's merits he was appointed in 1893 Attorney General (Queen's Counsel) , and in 1901 one of the so-called Bencher appointed the Bar Association of the Inner Temple.

On November 8, 1901, Eady joined the judicial service and was appointed judge at the High Court of Justice , the highest civil court responsible for England and Wales . There he worked as a judge in the Chamber of Economic Matters (Chancery Division) until 1913 . Linked to this was the knight bachelor's degree on December 20, 1901, so that from then on he carried the suffix "Sir".

Eady was then in 1913 as a Lord Justice of Appeal judge at the Court of Appeal , Commissioner for England and Wales Court of Appeal , where he worked until the 1918th At the same time he was appointed Privy Counselor in 1913 .

Most recently, in 1918, he succeeded Herbert Cozens-Hardy, 1st Baron Cozens-Hardy 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 .

By a letters patent from November 1, 1919, he was raised as a peer with the title Baron Swinfen , of Chertsey in the County of Surrey in the hereditary nobility and was thus a member of the House of Lords. However, he died 14 days later. His successor as Master of the Rolls was then William Pickford, 1st Baron Sterndale , with whom he was a judge at the High Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal for several years.

His marriage to Blanche Maude Lee on September 6, 1894 resulted in two daughters and a son, Charles Swinfen Eady , who inherited the title of 2nd Baron Swinfen after the death of his father.

Web links

• Charles Eady at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Charles Swinfen Eady, 1st Baron Swinfen on thepeerage.com , accessed August 20, 2015.
• Entry in peerages

Individual evidence

1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 27373, HMSO, London, 8 November 1901, p. 7221 ( PDF , English).
2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 27389, HMSO, London, 20 December 1901, p. 8979 ( PDF , English).
3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 31628, HMSO, London, November 4, 1919, p. 13419 ( PDF , English).

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Baron Swinfen 1919	Charles Swinfen Eady