Mark Romer, Baron Romer

Mark Romer, Baron Romer

Mark Lemon Romer, Baron Romer PC KC (* 9. August 1866 ; † 19th August 1944 ) was a British lawyer who most recently as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary , due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a Life Peer and Member of the House of Lords was .

Life

Lawyer and judge

Romer was the son of the barrister and later judge of the High Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal Robert Romer and Betty Lemon, a daughter of the founding editor of Punch magazine , Mark Lemon . He also completed a law degree after attending school and was admitted to the bar ( Inns of Court ) of Lincoln's Inn in 1890 . For his services as a lawyer, he was first appointed Crown Attorney ( King's Counsel ) in 1906 and, in 1910, so-called “Bencher” of the Lincoln's Inn Bar Association. In addition to his legal work, he was a legal advisor to the Royal College of Physicians in 1914 and the University of Cambridge in 1915 .

In 1922, like his father, Romer was from 1890 to 1899 a judge of the Chamber for Economic Matters ( Chancery Division ) at the High Court of Justice responsible for England and Wales and held this judicial office until 1929. At the same time he was beaten to a Knight Bachelor in 1922 and has led the Name suffix "Sir". After completing this judicial activity, he was appointed judge ( Lord Justice of Appeal ) in 1929 at the Court of Appeal , the court of appeal responsible for England and Wales, where he worked until 1938. He was also appointed Privy Councilor in 1938.

Lord Judge, House of Lords and Family Relationships

Most recently, Romer was appointed a member of the House of Lords to the nobility by a letters patent dated January 5, 1938 based on the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a life peer with the title Baron Romer , of New Romney in the County of Kent, and served up to his resignation on April 6, 1944 as Lord Judge ( Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ).

From his marriage on July 12, 1893, to Anne Wilmot Ritchie, a daughter of the politician Charles Thomson Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee , who was among other things President of the Board of Trade and later Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer , two went Sons, including Charles Robert Romer , who was also Lord Justice of Appeal between 1951 and 1960.

His brother-in-law was the future Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and Lord Chancellor Frederic Maugham, 1st Viscount Maugham , who was married to his sister Helen Mary Romer. He was also related to Frank Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen , another Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, who was married to his sister-in-law Mary Emily Ritchie, another daughter of Charles Thomson Ritchie.

Web links

• Mark Romer at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Lords of Appeal in Ordinary 1876-2009 in Peerages