John Sankey, 1st Viscount Sankey

John Sankey, 1st Viscount Sankey

John Sankey, 1st Viscount Sankey GBE PC KC (* 26. October 1866 ; † 6. February 1948 ) was a British lawyer and politician of the Labor Party , the 1929-1935 Lord Chancellor (Lord Chancellor) was.

Life

Legal career

Sankey completed his education at Lancing College , a private school founded by Nathaniel Woodard in 1848 , and then began studying at Jesus College at the University of Oxford , which he completed with a Master of Arts (MA). A subsequent postgraduate studies of law at Jesus College closed it with a Bachelor of Civil Law from (BCL). After his legal admission to the Middle Temple , he took up a position as a barrister in 1892 . He was recognized for his lawyer's merits 1909. Attorney (King's Counsel) appointed and in 1914 the so-called "Bencher" the Bar Association of the Middle Temple.

In 1914, Sankey, who had also been beaten to a Knight Bachelor degree in 1914 and henceforth had the suffix "Sir", was appointed judge at the ( High Court of Justice ) , the highest civil court for England and Wales , and was there until 1928 in the Chamber for Civil Matters (King's Bench Division) . In 1917 he became Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire .

In 1928 Sankey was appointed Lord Justice of Appeal judge at the Court of Appeal responsible for England and Wales, but only worked there for a year until 1929. In 1928 he was also appointed a member of the Privy Council .

Lord Chancellor

Subsequently, in 1929, Sankey succeeded Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham , Lord Chancellor (Lord High Chancellor) in the Labor Party government of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald . He also held this office in the National Government formed by MacDonald on August 25, 1931 until June 7, 1935.

After his appointment, he was called by a letters patent from June 21, 1929 as a hereditary peer with the title Baron Sankey , of Moreton in the County of Gloucester , in the hereditary nobility and thus belonged to the House of Lords .

As chairman of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council , at that time the highest court instance for all areas of the British Empire outside the British Isles, he drafted the decision on the Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General) . Also known as the Persons' Case known case is a Canadian -British court ruling that determined that women Canadian senators can be. The case was brought by the Canadian Famous Five - Nellie McClung , Henrietta Muir Edwards , Emily Murphy (1868–1933), Louise McKinney and Irene Parlby - who took the proceedings to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, then the highest auditor in Canada , carried.

Between November 1930 and January 1931 and again between September and December 1931, Sankey was among the participants in the British-Indian round table conferences in London , which dealt with the future constitution of India .

In addition, he was raised by a letters patent from January 30, 1932 Viscount Sankey , of Moreton in the County of Gloucester.

In 1935 he was again followed by Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, as Lord Chancellor. Sankey, who was also Knight of Grace of the Order of Saint John (KGStJ), served as treasurer of the Middle Temple Bar Association in 1936.

Since the unmarried Sankey died childless, the nobility titles of Viscount and Baron expired with his death.

Web links

• John Sankey at Hansard (English)
• Entry on cracroftspeerage.co.uk
• Entry in leighrayment.com
• John Sankey, 1st and last Viscount Sankey on thepeerage.com , accessed August 19, 2015.

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Baron Sankey 1929-1948	Title expired
New title created	Viscount Sankey 1932-1948	Title expired