Samuel Porter, Baron Porter

Samuel Lowry Porter, Baron Porter , GBE , Kt , PC (* 7. February 1877 , † 13. February 1956 ) 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

After attending school, Porter studied law and was admitted to the bar ( Inns of Court ) of Inner Temple in 1905 , whereupon he took up a position as a barrister . During the First World War he served in the British Army and was most recently promoted to captain and member of the Order of the British Empire . After the war he resumed his work as a barrister again and was twenty years on after his lawyer's approval in 1925 Attorney ( King's Counsel appointed).

In 1928 Porter switched to the judicial service and was first recorder (city judge) of Newcastle-under-Lyme and then between 1932 and 1934 recorder of Walsall . In 1934 he was appointed judge of the Chamber for Civil Matters ( King's Bench Division ) at the High Court of Justice responsible for England and Wales and held this judge's office until 1938. At the same time, he was promoted to Knight Bachelor in 1934 and has since been named "Sir".

Most recently, Porter was raised to life peer as Baron Porter , of Longfield in the County of Tyrone, and thereby a member of the House of Lords, by a letters patent dated March 28, 1938 based on the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 . He worked until his resignation on October 14, 1954 as Lord Judge ( Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ). Lord Porter, who also became Privy Councilor in 1938 , was promoted to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1951 .

Publications

• The Education bill of 1906, an analysis, and a brief survey of the education question from 1870 , 1907.

Web links

• Mr Samuel Porter 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