John Fletcher Moulton, Baron Moulton

John Fletcher Moulton GBE KCB PC QC FRS (* 18th November 1844 in Madeley , Shropshire ; † 29. March 1921 in London ) was a British politician of the Liberal Party and a lawyer , who several years deputy in the House of Commons , and most recently when Lord of Appeal in Ordinary was also a member of the House of Lords as a Life Peer due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 .

John Fletcher Moulton, Baron Moulton (1913)

Life

Lawyer and Member of the House of Commons

Moulton, a minister's son, graduated after attending the Kingswood School to study law at St John's College of the University of Cambridge and received in 1874 his legal approval to the Bar Association ( Inns of Court ) from Middle Temple . He then began working as a barrister and became the basis of his legal services in 1885 Attorney-General ( Queen's Counsel appointed).

On November 24, 1885, as a candidate for the Liberal Party, he was elected for the first time as a member of the House of Commons, where he represented the constituency of Battersea and Clapham until July 1, 1886 . After he had worked as a barrister again for several years, he belonged between May 7, 1894 and July 13, 1895 to the House of Commons again as an MP, this time representing the constituency of Hackney South . On August 3, 1898, he was finally re-elected to the House of Commons for the Liberal Party and represented the constituency of Launceston until January 12, 1906 .

Lord Justice and Member of the House of Lords

After leaving the House of Commons, he was appointed judge ( Lord Justice of Appeal ) in 1906 at the Court of Appeal , the court of appeal responsible for England and Wales, where he worked until 1912. In addition, he was beaten in 1906 to the Knight Bachelor , so that from now on he had the suffix "Sir" and was appointed Privy Councilor . During this time he was also both a so-called "Bencher" and treasurer of the Middle Temple Bar Association in 1910. He was also a temporary Fellow and Member of the Senate of the University of London and also a member of the Royal Commission on Civil Service Remuneration and Chairman of the Medical Research Committee .

Last Moulton was a Letters Patent from October 1, 1912 due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a life peer with the title Baron Moulton , of Bank in the County of Southampton for a member of the House of Lords in the nobility called and worked until his Death in 1921 as Lord Judge ( Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ).

At the same time, Lord Moulton worked at the beginning of the First World War in 1914 as Chairman of the Committee for Chemical Products and the Committee for Highly Explosive Products and in 1915 as Director General for the Supply of Explosive Products in the Ministry of Munitions.

For his services during this time, he was first named Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1915 and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1917 . He was also awarded the Leopold Order of Belgium and the Order of the White Eagle by Poland .

family

Moulton was married twice. From the first marriage, Hugh Fletcher Moulton emerged, who had also received a legal license as a barrister at the Middle Temple Bar Association and had represented the constituency of Salisbury in the House of Commons between 1923 and 1924 as an MP . In addition, he wrote a biography of his father in 1922 . His second marriage daughter, Sylvia May Fletcher Moulton, was also licensed as a barrister by the Middle Temple Bar.

His brothers were clergy and Bible Students James Egan Moulton , William Fiddian Moulton, and Richard Green Moulton .

Fonts

• Science and war. The Rede lecture , 1919

literature

• Hugh Fletcher Moulton: The life of Lord Moulton , 1922

Web links

• John Moulton 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