Eustace Roskill, Baron Roskill

Eustace Wentworth Roskill, Baron Roskill , PC ( February 6, 1911 - October 4, 1996 ) was a British lawyer, civil servant and life peer .

education

Eustace Roskill was born in 1911 as the fourth son of John Roskill and his wife Sybill, daughter of the radical liberal MP Ashton Wentworth Dilke . Stephen Roskill , a marine historian born in 1903, was his brother. For his outstanding academic achievements, he received a scholarship ( Exhibition ) at Winchester College and later moved to Exeter College . There he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1932 as one of the best in his class ( first-class honors ) and was given an honorary chair for modern history. The following year he continued his education with the Harmsworth Scholar Fellowship at Middle Temple and received legal license in 1933. Another three years later he obtained a Master of Arts and subsequently worked as a barrister at the Commercial Court.

Career

At the outbreak of World War II in 1939 Roskill was due to a recent tuberculosis disease not collected armed service, but worked in the Ministry of Shipping (1941: Ministry of War Transport ) to 1945. In 1950 he was appointed to justice of the peace Hampshire appointed and vice chairman of the County Quarter Session the following year. In 1953 he received his appointment as Attorney-General ( Queen's Counsel ) and sat the Quarter Session in 1960 as chairman before. In the following year he was appointed Commissioner of Assize in Birmingham and was also elected by the Middle Temple as a bencher , i.e. a member of the school's self-governing body.

In 1962 he received his call to the High Court of Justice and was simultaneously beaten to the Knight Bachelor . He was the first president of the Senate of the Inns of Court and the Bar , founded in 1967 . He was the first Vice-Chairman of the Parole Board for England and Wales , founded in 1968, and at the same time headed the third London Airport Commission. In 1971 he was appointed Lord Justice of Appeal , with which he was also appointed to the Privy Council . In 1980 he was made a Life Peer with the title Baron Roskill, of Newtown, in the County of Hampshire and at the same time appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in the House of Lords .

In 1986 he stepped down from office and retired, but continued to do honorary jobs. In the same year he sat before the Fraud Trials Committee and from 1987 also the hearing committee of the judges' committee for commercial takeovers and mergers. He finally resigned these offices in 1993 and worked as an arbitrator for the last few years until his death on October 4, 1996 at the age of 86 .

family

Eustace Roskill married Elisabeth Jackson in 1947, with whom he had a son and two daughters.

Web links

• Eustace Roskill, Baron Roskill on thepeerage.com , accessed September 13, 2016.
• Obituary in The Independent newspaper , October 10, 1996.