Herbert Cozens-Hardy, 1st Baron Cozens-Hardy

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Herbert Cozens-Hardy, 1st Baron Cozens-Hardy
Sir Herbert Cozens-Hardy (caricature in Vanity Fair magazine , January 24, 1901)

Herbert Hardy Cozens-Hardy, 1st Baron Cozens-Hardy PC Kt QC (born November 22, 1838 in Letheringsett , Norfolk ; † June 18, 1920 ) was a British lawyer and politician of the Liberal Party who was a member of the House of Commons , from 1907 to 1918 as Master of the Rolls held the second highest office of judge in the English legal system and in 1914 as Baron Cozens-Hardy was raised to the nobility and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death .

Life

After attending Amersham School, Cozens-Hardy began studying law at University College London , graduating in 1862. After being admitted to the bar ( Inns of Court ) of Lincoln's Inn , he took up a position as a barrister in 1862 and also became a Fellow of University College London. For his lawyer's merits he was appointed Queen's Counsel (Queen's Counsel) , so-called Bencher of the Bar from Lincoln's Inn, and Chairman of the General Council of the lawyers (Chairman of the General Council of the Bar) .

On November 24, 1885 Cozens-Hardy was elected as a candidate of the Liberal Party to the House of Commons and represented the constituency of Norfork North until his resignation in 1899 .

After his resignation, he entered the judicial service in 1899 and was appointed judge at the High Court of Justice , the highest civil court responsible for England and Wales . There he worked as a judge in the Chamber of Economic Matters (Chancery Division) until 1901 . This was also linked to the knight bachelor's degree in 1899, so that from then on he carried the suffix "Sir".

Cozens-Hardy was then in November 1901 as a Lord Justice of Appeal judge at the Court of Appeal , Commissioner for England and Wales Court of Appeal , where he worked until the 1907th At the same time he was appointed Privy Counselor in 1901 .

Most recently in 1907 he succeeded Richard Collins, Baron Collins as Master of the Rolls and thus as chairman of the civil panel of the Court of Appeal. He held the second highest judicial office in the English legal system until 1918 after the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales . During this time he also served as chairman of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts .

By a letters patent from July 1, 1914, he was raised as a peer with the title Baron Cozens-Hardy , of Letheringsett in the County of Norfolk , in the hereditary nobility and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death.

His marriage to Maria Hepburn in 1868 resulted in a daughter and two sons. After his death, his eldest son, William Hepburn Cozens-Hardy, 2nd Baron Cozens-Hardy , who had previously represented the constituency of Norfolk South as MP in the House of Commons between 1918 and 1920 , succeeded him as 2nd Baron Cozens-Hardy. Since he died childless, his younger brother Edward Herbert Cozens-Hardy followed him after his death on May 25, 1924 as 3rd Baron Cozens-Hardy. His daughter Katherine Maria Cozens-Hardy was the mother of comedian and entrepreneur Kenneth Horne . His grandson Ronald Gordon is a British Anglican theologian who was Bishop of Portsmouth in the Church of England from 1975 to 1984 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 27372, HMSO, London, November 5, 1901, p. 7144 ( PDF , English).
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 27372, HMSO, London, November 5, 1901, p. 7138 ( PDF , English).
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 28846, HMSO, London, July 3, 1914, p. 5155 ( PDF , English).
predecessor Office successor
New title created Baron Cozens-Hardy
1914-1920 		William Cozens-Hardy
personal data
SURNAME Cozens-Hardy, Herbert, 1st Baron Cozens-Hardy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cozens-Hardy, Herbert Hardy, 1st Baron Cozens-Hardy, of Letheringsett (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Letheringsett , Norfolk
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1920