Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote

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Sir Thomas Inskip (1936)

Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote CBE , PC , KC (born March 5, 1876 in Clifton , † October 11, 1947 in Godalming , Surrey) was a British politician and lawyer .

Life

His parents were the lawyer James Inskip and his second wife Constance Sophia Louisa. James Inskip , later Bishop of Barking, was his older half-brother and Sir John Hampden, later Lord Mayor of Bristol , was his younger brother. He attended Clifton College from 1886 to 1894 and studied at King's College , Cambridge from 1894 to 1897 . Two years later he was inducted into the Inner Temple , one of the four bar associations for England.

He served in the military intelligence service and from 1918 to 1919 in the Admiral's staff as head of the Department of Maritime Law . In 1918 he became a member of the House of Commons for the constituency of Bristol Central . In 1920 he was inducted into the Order of the British Empire as Commander . Two years later he was beaten to a Knight Bachelor and made Solicitor General .

In 1928 he was appointed Attorney General , which he held until the change of government in 1929. In the same year he lost his mandate in the general election. In 1931 he received this office again in the government of Ramsay MacDonald after he had regained his parliamentary seat in a by-election in the constituency of Fareham . In 1935 he charged Edward Russell, 26th Baron de Clifford , with manslaughter. This was the last time a criminal trial against a peer took place in front of the House of Lords .

Inskip became the first Minister for Coordination of Defense in 1936 . This appointment was highly controversial as he had no defense policy experience at all . In the spring of 1939 he was replaced by Lord Chatfield and became Minister for the Dominions . In the same year he was raised to the hereditary nobility as Viscount Caldecote and appointed Lord Chancellor , but the following year he was recalled and reappointed Minister for the Dominions. When he was raised to the nobility, he lost his seat in the House of Commons and from then on had a hereditary seat in the House of Lords . He then served as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 1940 to 1946.

family

Inskip married Lady Augusta Helen Elizabeth Boyle in 1914, daughter of David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow , and widow of the Scottish politician Charles Lindsay Orr-Ewing . He died on October 11, 1947 at the age of 71 in Godalming , his only son Robert Andrew Inskip (1917-1999) became heir to his nobility. His wife died in 1967 at the age of 90.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary: Viscount Caldecote . In: The Law Journal . tape  97 , October 17, 1947, p. 568 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - Obituary).
predecessor Office successor
New title created Viscount Caldecote
1939-1947 		Robert Inskip
personal data
SURNAME Inskip, Thomas, 1st Viscount Caldecote
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Inskip, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British lawyer and politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Clifton , Bristol
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1947
Place of death Godalming , Surrey