Frederick Tucker, Baron Tucker
Frederick James Tucker, Baron Tucker PC ( May 22, 1888 - November 27, 1975 ) was a British lawyer who was last as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a life peer also a member of the House of Lords .
Life
Tucker, whose father Frederick Nugent Tucker was a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Natal Colony , graduated from school with a law degree and after graduating in 1914 was admitted to the bar ( Inns of Court ) of Inner Temple . He then took up a job as a barrister and served between 1929 and 1937 as a member of the General Council of the Bar . For his legal services he was appointed Crown Attorney ( King's Counsel ) in 1933 and in 1937 so-called "Bencher" of the Inner Temple Bar Association.
Tucker, who was City Judge (Recorder) of Southampton between 1936 and 1937 , was appointed Judge at the Chamber of Civil Matters ( King's Bench Division ) at the High Court of Justice responsible for England and Wales in 1937 and held this judicial office until 1960. At the same time he was appointed in 1937 beaten to Knight Bachelor and since then has had the suffix "Sir".
After finishing this judicial activity in 1945 he was appointed judge ( Lord Justice of Appeal ) at the Court of Appeal , the court of appeal responsible for England and Wales, where he worked until 1950. In addition, he was appointed Privy Councilor in 1945 and a Fellow of the New College of the University of Oxford in 1946 . In 1945 he was presiding judge in the trial of the fascist politician William Joyce .
Last Tucker was a Letters Patent of September 29, 1950 due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a life peer with the title Baron Tucker , of Great Bookham in the County of Surrey, for a member of the House of Lords in the nobility called and worked until his retirement on October 6, 1961 as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary .
Web links
- Frederick Tucker at the Hansard (English)
- Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
- Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
- Lords of Appeal in Ordinary 1876-2009 in Peerages
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| SURNAME | Tucker, Frederick, Baron Tucker |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tucker, Frederick James, Baron Tucker (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1888 |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 27, 1975 |