Herbert du Parcq, Baron du Parcq

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Herbert du Parcq, Baron du Parcq PC KC (born August 5, 1880 in Saint Helier , Jersey , † April 27, 1949 in London ) was a British lawyer , who last served as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as Life Peer was also a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Lawyer and judge

After visiting the Victoria College in Jersey you graduated Parcq a degree in Classical Studies at Exeter College of the University of Oxford , which he with a Bachelor of Arts graduated (BA Literae Humaniores). He also studied law at Jesus College at the University of Oxford, which he completed with a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL). During his studies he was president of the University Debating Club ( Oxford Union ) in 1902 and in 1906, after completing his studies, he was admitted to the Bar ( Inns of Court ) of Middle Temple . He then began working as a barrister and received for his lawyer's merits in 1926 the title of Kronanwalts ( King's Counsel ).

After more than twenty years of legal practice, du Parcq switched to the judicial service in 1928 and was initially a recorder (city judge) of Portsmouth before he served as city judge of Bristol from 1929 to 1932 . During this time he was investigating the circumstances of a prisoner riot at Dartmoor Penitentiary in 1932 . In 1932 du Parcq, who in 1931 became a so-called "Bencher" of the Middle Temple Bar Association, was judge at the Chamber for Civil Matters ( King's Bench Division ) at the High Court of Justice responsible for England and Wales and held this judicial office until 1938. At the same time he was In 1932 he was awarded a Knight Bachelor's degree and since then has had the suffix "Sir".

Promotion to Lord Judge and member of the House of Lords

After finishing this judicial activity, he was appointed judge ( Lord Justice of Appeal ) in 1938 at the Court of Appeal , the court of appeal responsible for England and Wales, where he worked until 1946. In addition, he was appointed Privy Councilor in 1938 and in 1945 also a judge at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague .

Finally, you were Parcq by a Letters Patent of February 5, 1946 due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a life peer with the title Baron du Parcq , of Grouville in the Isle of Jersey for a member of the House of Lords in the nobility called and worked until on his death in 1949 as Lord Judge ( Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ). In 1946 he was also chairman of the Royal Commission into Justices of Peace .

Publications

In addition to legal literature, du Parcq also published a biography of the future Prime Minister David Lloyd George .

  • Life of David Lloyd George , 1912
  • Report by M. Herbert du Parcq on the circumstances connected with the recent disorders at Dartmoor convict prison , 1932
  • Aspects of the law , 1948

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personal data
SURNAME Du Parcq, Herbert, Baron du Parcq
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jurist, lord judge
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Helier , Jersey
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1949
Place of death London