Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley

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Nathaniel Lindley (1893)

Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley Kt PC QC (born November 29, 1828 in Acton Green ; † December 13, 1921 ) was a British lawyer who held the post of Master of the Rolls between 1897 and 1900 and most recently as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary was also a member of the House of Lords due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as Life Peer .

Life

Lawyer and judge

Lindley, son of the famous botanist John Lindley (1799-1865), graduated after attending the University College School in Hampstead to study law at University College London and received in 1850 his legal approval to the Bar Association ( Inns of Court ) from Middle Temple . He then took up a job as a barrister and was appointed Crown Attorney ( Queen's Counsel ) in 1872 for his legal services and in 1874 so-called "Bencher" of the Middle Temple Bar Association.

After he was both serjeant-at-law and judge for general actions for a short time in 1875 , he was also appointed as a judge in 1875 to the newly established High Court of Justice responsible for England and Wales , where he initially worked in the chamber for general actions ( Common Pleas Division ) and then from 1880 to 1881 judge in the Chamber for Civil Matters ( Queen's Bench Division ). At the same time he was beaten to Knight Bachelor in 1875 and since then has had the suffix "Sir".

Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice and Member of the House of Lords

After finishing this judicial activity, he was appointed judge ( Lord Justice of Appeal ) in 1881 at the Court of Appeal , the court of appeals responsible for England and Wales, where he worked until 1897. In addition, he was appointed Privy Councilor in 1881 . In 1897 he took over the influential position of Master of the Rolls from William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher, and was thus President of the Chamber of Civil Matters at this Supreme Court of Appeal until his replacement by Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone .

Last Lindley was a Letters Patent of May 10, 1900 due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a life peer with the title Baron Lindley , of East Carleton in the County of Norfolk for a member of the House of Lords in the nobility appointed and worked until 1905 as Lord Judge ( Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ). In 1903 he was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the British Academy .

Significant judgments as Lord Judge

During his tenure as Lord Justice, he participated in important decisions such as:

  • Taff Vale Railway Co. v Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (1901): In these proceedings from labor law , the decision in principle was made under common law that unions are liable to pay compensation for lost profits in the event of a strike . The trialhelpedfound the Labor Party , while the verdict was revisedby the Trade Disputes Act 1906 .
  • Quinn v Leathem (1901): These proceedings from the Tort Law concerned economic damage due to tort and violations due to conspiracies in labor law at the time.
  • Bannatyne v Overtoun (1904): This case involved a lengthy legal battle between the United Free Church of Scotland (an association of the majority of the Free Church of Scotland with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland ) and the minority of the previous Free Church of Scotland. This direction, mockingly called Wee Frees (“The small / tiny Free Church”) in Scotland, gained attention through the proceedings far beyond Scotland when it succeeded in legal proceedings to become the legal successor to the “old” Free Church and thus all of it To be awarded assets as well as all properties. The conflict was finally resolved by the British Parliament, which divided up the disputed property and awarded the new Free Church a share of it beyond its importance.
  • Colls v Home and Colonial Stores (1904): These proceedings from the Tort Law concerned the so-called “right to light”, an easement that gave the long-time owner of a building with windows a right to the existence of the natural lighting of its building with daylight. These rights were typically acquired under the Prescription Act 1832.

progeny

His marriage to Sarah Katherine Teale in 1858 resulted in a total of nine children, some of whom also held important functions.

His eldest son John Edward Lindley (1860-1925) was Brigadier General and at the beginning of the First World War from 1914 to 1915 Commanding Officer of the Welsh Division of the Territorial Forces. The second son, Walter Harry Lindley, was also a barrister and judge, and the third son, Lennox Hannay Lindley, was a physician and at times court physician to the Shah of Persia , while the fifth and youngest son, Sir Francis Oswald Lindley (1872–1949) was a diplomat and was ambassador to Austria ( 1920 to 1921), Greece (1922 to 1923), Norway (1929 to 1931), Portugal (1929 to 1930) and Japan (1931 to 1934).

Furthermore, his second oldest daughter was married to the politician William Cameron Gull , who was a member of the House of Commons between 1900 and 1905 , where he represented the constituency of Barnstaple .

Publications

  • An Introduction to the Study of Jurisprudence , 1855
  • A treatise on the law of partnership , 1860
  • A treatise on the law of companies , 1889
  • A treatise on the law of companies, considered as a branch of the law of partnership , 1902
  • A supplement to Lord Lindley's Treatise on the law of partnership , 1909

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Lindley, Nathaniel, Baron Lindley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Acton Green
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1921