Frederic Maugham, 1st Viscount Maugham

Frederic Maugham, 1st Viscount Maugham

Frederic Herbert Maugham, 1st Viscount Maugham PC KC (* 20th October 1866 in Paris ; † 23. March 1958 in London ) was a British lawyer who most recently as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary , due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a Life Peer and Was a member of the House of Lords . In the meantime, he held between 1938 and 1939 as Lord Chancellor one of the highest legal offices in the English legal system and in 1939 also received the hereditary title ( Hereditary Peerage ) of Viscount Maugham .

Life

Lawyer and judge

Maugham, son of an agent working in Paris Solicitor and older brother of the playwright and narrator William Somerset Maugham , completed after visiting the Dover College to study law at Trinity Hall of the University of Cambridge . In 1888 he took part in the Boat Race against the University of Oxford , in 1890 he was admitted to the bar ( Inns of Court ) of Lincoln's Inn . He then took up a job as a barrister and in 1913 was first crown attorney ( King's Counsel ) and in 1915 a so-called “Bencher” of the Lincoln's Inn Bar Association for his legal services .

In 1928 Wright was judge of the Chamber for Economic Matters ( Chancery Division ) at the High Court of Justice responsible for England and Wales and held this judicial office until 1934. At the same time he was promoted to Knight Bachelor in 1928 and since then has had the suffix "Sir". After completing this judicial activity, he was appointed judge ( Lord Justice of Appeal ) in 1934 at the Court of Appeal , the court of appeal responsible for England and Wales, where he worked until 1935. He was also appointed Privy Councilor in 1934.

Lord Judge, House of Lords and Lord Chancellor

By a Letters Patent from October 7, 1935 Maugham was due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a Life Peer with the title Baron Maugham, of Hartfield in the County of Sussex for a member of the House of Lords in the nobility appointed and worked up initially his death in 1938 as Lord Judge ( Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ).

On March 9, 1938, Lord Maugham of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain , succeeding Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham to Lord Chancellor of Great Britain ( Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain ) appointed and held this post until his replacement by Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote on September 3, 1939.

For his many years of service he was given the hereditary title ( Hereditary Peerage ) of Viscount Maugham, of Hartfield in the County of Sussex on September 22, 1939 . On October 5, 1939 Viscount Maugham was again Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and exercised this office as Lord Judge until his resignation on July 18, 1941.

His marriage on December 17, 1896 to Helen Mary Romer, a daughter of the future Lord Justice of Appeal Sir Robert Romer and sister of the future Lord of Appeal in Ordinary Mark Romer, Baron Romer had four children, including his only son Robin Maugham , who became his heir as 2nd Viscount Maugham after his death, while the life peerage as Baron Maugham expired with his death.

Publications

• North Charterland concession inquiry , 1933
• Napoleon & St. Helena , 1937
• Read as allies , 1941
• The truth about the Munich crisis , 1944
• UN and war crimes , 1951

Web links

• Frederic Maugham at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Lords of Appeal in Ordinary 1876-2009 in Peerages
• Proof of publication in the Open Library

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Viscount Maugham 1939-1958	Robin Maugham