Cyril Asquith, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone

Cyril Asquith PC KC (* 5. February 1890 in Hampstead , London ; † 24. August 1954 in Chelsea , London) was a British lawyer who most recently as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary , due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as Life Peer was also a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Cyril Asquith was the fourth son from the first marriage of the future Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith and thus a brother of Raymond Asquith and Violet Bonham Carter . Through his father's second marriage to the writer Margot Asquith , he was also a half-brother of Elizabeth Asquith and Anthony Asquith .

After attending school, he completed a law degree . After graduation, he was admitted to the bar ( Inns of Court ) of Inner Temple in 1920 and then took up a position as a lawyer . For his legal services he was awarded the title of Crown Attorney in 1936 ( King's Counsel ).

After he worked as a recorder (city judge) of Salisbury between 1937 and 1938 , he was in 1938 a judge in the Chamber for Civil Matters ( King's Bench Division ) at the High Court of Justice responsible for England and Wales and held this judicial office until 1946 he was beaten to a Knight Bachelor degree in 1938 and since then has had the suffix "Sir". During this time, in 1939, he was named "Bencher" of the Inner Temple Bar Association.

After completing this judicial activity, he was appointed judge ( Lord Justice of Appeal ) in 1946 at the Court of Appeal , the court of appeal responsible for England and Wales, where he worked until 1951. He was also appointed Privy Councilor in 1951 .

Most recently, Asquith on 23 April 1951 due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a life peer with the title Baron Asquith of Bishopstone , of Bishopstone in the County of Sussex, to the House of Lords member in the nobility called and worked until his death in 1954 as Lord Judge ( Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ).

His marriage to Anne Stephanie Pollock, a daughter of Sir Adrian Donald Wilde Pollock KCMG , the 1912-1943 Chamberlain ( Chamberlain ) of London was, two sons and two daughters were born. His younger daughter's husband was Sir John Frederick Eustace Stephenson , who was last also Lord Justice of Appeal between 1971 and 1985.

Web links

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