Gavin Simonds, 1st Viscount Simonds

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Gavin Turnbull Simonds, 1st Viscount Simonds , KC , PC (born November 28, 1881 in Reading , † June 28, 1971 ) was a British lawyer , politician and Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.

life and career

He was born as one of three sons of master brewer Louis de Luze Simonds and his wife Mary Elizabeth Turnbull. His education he received at Winchester College before studying the classics at New College of the University of Oxford recorded. He graduated in 1904 with a Bachelor of Arts and was admitted as a barrister at Lincoln's Inn in 1906 .

On April 15, 1924 appointed him Edward VIII. The Attorney-General . In 1937 he was appointed judge on the High Court of Justice and a few days later he was knighted ( Knight Bachelor ). In 1943 he returned to his alma mater and completed an extra-occupational postgraduate course with a Magister Artium . The following year he was appointed Lord Justice appointed a member of the Privy Council and as Baron Simonds of Sparsholt in the County of Southampton for Life Peer levied. He held this position until 1951. Then he took over the office of Lord Chancellor at the request of Winston Churchill . In 1952 he was granted the hereditary title Baron Simonds , of Sparsholt in the County of Southampton, by letters patent . With the bestowal of another hereditary title Viscount Simonds , of Sparsholt in the County of Southampton, he resumed work as Lord Judge in 1954. At the age of 81, he retired in 1962. In addition to his work as a judge, Simonds was also High Steward of the City of Winchester and volunteered as Lord Steward of the University of Oxford .

Marriage and offspring

On March 28, 1912, he married Mary Hope Mellor, with whom he had two sons, who both died childless before him. Accordingly, his hereditary titles of nobility expired when he died in 1971 without any living descendants.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis de Luze Simonds on thepeerage.com , accessed September 13, 2016.
  2. ↑ speech Lord Halisham of St. Marylebone before the House of Lords to death Simonds last downloaded 19 December 2012
  3. ↑ a b c d Gavin Turnbull Simonds, 1st and last Viscount Simonds on thepeerage.com , accessed September 13, 2016.
  4. ↑ London Gazette . No. 32928, HMSO, London, April 18, 1924, p. 3205 ( PDF , accessed December 18, 2012, English).
  5. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34377, HMSO, London, March 5, 1937, p. 1486 ( PDF , accessed December 18, 2012, English).
  6. ↑ London Gazette . No. 36481, HMSO, London, April 21, 1944, p. 1841 ( PDF , accessed December 18, 2012, English).
  7. ↑ London Gazette . No. 39584, HMSO, London, June 27, 1952, p. 3520 ( PDF , accessed December 18, 2012, English).
  8. ↑ London Gazette . No. 40313, HMSO, London, October 29, 1954, p. 6124 ( PDF , accessed December 18, 2012, English).
  9. ^ Gavin Turnbull Simonds, 1st and last Viscount Simonds on thepeerage.com , accessed September 13, 2016.

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SURNAME Simonds, Gavin, 1st Viscount Simonds
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simonds, Gavin Turnbull, 1st Viscount Simonds; Simonds, Gavin, Baron Simonds; Simonds, Gavin, 1st Baron Simonds
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British judge, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Reading
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1971