Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed

Francis Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed PC KC (* 8. August 1899 , † 3. October 1966 ) was a British lawyer , who as Erb-peer ( Hereditary peer ) and most recently as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary member of the House of Lords was. Between 1949 and 1962 he held one of the most outstanding judicial posts in Great Britain as a Master of the Rolls .

Life

Family, World War I and lawyer

Evershed was the son of the cricketer and brewery owner Frank Evershed and the grandson of the brewery owner Sidney Evershed , who represented the Burton constituency as a member of the House of Commons for the Liberal Party between 1886 and 1900 . Raymond Evershed's uncle, Sir Sydney Herbert Evershed, Wallis Evershed, and Edward Evershed were also famous cricketers who played for Derbyshire in the 1880s and 1890s.

Francis Evershed himself did his military service with the Royal Engineers after visiting Clifton College at the end of the First World War , where he was finally promoted to sub- lieutenant. After the end of the war, he completed a law degree at the University of Oxford, and after graduating in 1923, he was admitted to the bar ( Inns of Court ) of Lincoln's Inn . He then took up a job as a barrister and was appointed Crown Attorney ( King's Counsel ) in 1933 and in 1938 a so-called "Bencher" of the Lincoln's Inn Bar Association for his legal services .

Master of the Rolls, Member of the House of Lords and Lord Judge

In 1944 Evershed became a judge at the High Court of Justice responsible for England and Wales and held this judicial office until 1947. At the same time, he was beaten to a Knight Bachelor degree in 1944 and has since had the suffix "Sir". After the termination of this judicial activity, he was appointed judge ( Lord Justice of Appeal ) in 1947 at the Court of Appeal , the court of appeal responsible for England and Wales. Associated with this was his appointment as Privy Councilor .

After two years as Lord Justice of Appeal, he succeeded Wilfred Greene, 1st Baron Greene as Master of the Rolls, and thus chairman of the civil division of the Court of Appeal. This important function judges he held for thirteen years until his replacement by Alfred Denning 1962. During this time Evershed was the 1950, British representative on the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague , was by a Letters Patent of 20 January 1956 as Baron Evershed , of Stapenhill in the County of Derby , appointed to the hereditary nobility ( Hereditary Peerage ) and was thus a member of the House of Lords. Also in 1956 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

On April 19, 1962, Baron Evershed became Lord Judge ( Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ) and held this office until his retirement on January 11, 1965.

After his death, the title of Baron Evershed expired because he died without male offspring.

Web links

• Francis Evershed at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Lords of Appeal in Ordinary 1876-2009 in Peerages