Edwin Herbert, Baron Tangley

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Edwin Savory Herbert, Baron Tangley KBE (born June 29, 1899 in Egham , Surrey , † June 5, 1973 ) was a British lawyer who became a member of the House of Lords in 1964 as a life peer under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

After attending King's College Taunton, Herbert completed a law degree at the Law School of the Law Society and at the University of London , graduating in 1919 with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). In the meantime he did voluntary military service in the reserve of the Royal Navy between 1917 and 1919 . He then continued his legal education and completed it with a doctorate in law (LL.D.).

After being admitted to the bar, he worked as a solicitor and had been a member of the Law Society's advisory board since 1935, where he worked on various specialist committees. He also acted temporarily as chairman of the arbitration commission and the commission for international law of the international chamber of commerce . Between 1949 and 1950 he was chairman of the Committee on Intermediaries named after him .

Herbert was also chairman of the Alpine Club , the oldest mountaineering club in the world based in London , and vice-chairman of the Mount Everest Foundation between 1953 and 1955 . Baron Tangley was also awarded the Legion of Merit and the Haakon VII Freedom Cross ( Haakon VIIs Frihetskors ). Between 1955 and 1958 he was Chairman of the Finance Committee and a member of the Management Committee of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition . In his honor the Herbert Mountains , a group of mountains in the Shackleton Range in the East Antarctic Coatsland, were named in October 1957 .

In 1956 he was also President of the Law Society and as such lectured at the meeting of the American Bar Association .

Through a letters patent dated January 22, 1964, Herbert, who became Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1956 and henceforth had the suffix "Sir", was named Life Peer with the title Baron Tangley , of Blackheath in the County of Surrey, in raised to the nobility and was as such a member of the House of Lords until his death. In 1965 he held the Hamlyn Lectures sponsored by the Hamlyn Trust at the University of Exeter under the title New Law for a New World? .

Publications

  • Damage and Casualties in Port Said: Report by Sir Edwin Herbert on His Investigation Into the Effects of the Military Action in October and November, 1956 . HM Stationery Office, 1956
  • Report. Great Britain. Royal Commissions on Local Government in Greater London, 1957-60 . HM Stationery Office, 1960
  • Standard boardroom practice. Prepared by a special committee under the chairmanship of Sir Edwin Herbert . 1961
  • New Law for a New World? (PDF; 3.9 MB) 1965
  • Two Distinguished Guests at the Dallas Meeting . In: ABA Journal , July 1956, p. 640

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Committee on Intermediaries (Herbert Committee)
  2. ^ Herbert Mountains. In: Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory
  3. ^ ABA Journal , November 1956
  4. ^ ABA Journal , February 1957
personal data
SURNAME Herbert, Edwin, Baron Tangley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herbert, Edwin Savory, Baron Tangley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Egham , Surrey
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 1973