Edmund Davies, Baron Edmund-Davies

Herbert Edmund Edmund-Davies, Baron Edmund-Davies (born July 15, 1906 in Mountain Ash , Mid Glamorgan ; † December 26, 1992 ) was a British lawyer who was last named Lord of Appeal in Ordinary on the basis of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as Life Peer was also a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Lawyer, Recorder and High Court Judge

Davies graduated after school to study law at King's College London , and with financial support from a Vinerian Scholarship at Exeter College of the University of Oxford . After completing his studies, he was admitted to the bar ( Inns of Court ) of Gray's Inn in 1929 , but between 1930 and 1931 he initially worked as a lecturer at the London School of Economics (LSE) before taking up a position as a barrister .

At the beginning of the Second World War he did his military service as a reserve officer with the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was first recorder (city judge) of Merthyr Tydfil in 1942 , then between 1944 and 1953 from Swansea and finally between 1953 and 1958 recorder from Cardiff . He also served as President of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Denbighshire between 1953 and 1964 .

In 1958 Davies was appointed to the High Court of Justice responsible for England and Wales and worked there until 1966 as a judge in the Chamber for Civil Matters ( Queen's Bench Division ). Furthermore, he was beaten to a Knight Bachelor degree in 1958 and from then on carried the suffix "Sir".

Lord Justice and Member of the House of Lords

After completing his work at the High Court of Justice, in 1966 he was appointed judge ( Lord Justice of Appeal ) at the Court of Appeal , the court of appeal responsible for England and Wales, where he served until 1974. He was also appointed Privy Councilor in 1966 .

Last Davies was a Letters Patent from October 1, 1974 due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a life peer with the title Baron Edmund-Davies, of Aberpennar in the County of Mid Glamorgan to a member of the House of Lords in the nobility called and worked until on his resignation on September 30, 1981 as Lord Judge ( Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ).

In addition, Baron Edmund-Davies was Pro-Chancellor of the University of Wales from 1974 to 1985 and from 1982 to 1988 President of the London Welsh Trust , which operates the London- based Wales Center ( Canolfan Cymry Llundain ).

Web links

• Herbert Edmund Davies at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Lords of Appeal in Ordinary 1876-2009 in Peerages