Thomas Tomlin, Baron Tomlin

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Thomas James Chesshyre Tomlin, Baron Tomlin PC KC ( May 6, 1867 - August 12, 1935 ) was a British lawyer , who was last as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a life peer also a member of the House of Lords was.

Life

Tomlin, whose father George Taddy Tomlin was also a barrister , graduated from school with a law degree and was admitted to the bar ( Inns of Court ) of Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn in 1891 . He then took up a job as a barrister and was crowned attorney ( King's Counsel ) in 1913 and in 1918 a so-called “bencher” of the bar associations of Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn for his legal services . He also worked as legal advisor to the Board of Trade , the Inland Revenue , the Commission of Woods and Forests , the Charity Commission and the Board of Education, most recently in 1922 also as a consultant to the Royal College of Physicians .

In 1923 Tomlin was a judge at the Chamber of Economic Matters ( Chancery Division ) at the High Court of Justice responsible for England and Wales and as such was beaten to a Knight Bachelor degree , so that since then he has had the suffix "Sir". He was also chairman of the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors from 1923 to 1933 , a royal commission for the settlement of patent disputes. In addition, he was also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the University of London during this time in 1926 .

By a Letters Patent of 11 February 1929 Tomlin was due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a life peer with the title Baron Tomlin , of Ash in the County of Kent for a member of the House of Lords in the nobility called and worked until his death 1935 as Lord Judge ( Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ). At the same time he became Privy Councilor and was chairman of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service from 1929 to 1931 and at times also a member of the University Committee of the Privy Council.

The so-called "Tomlin Order" is named after him. This is a court order in British civil procedural law, which refers to previously negotiated agreements between the litigants and includes them as an annex to the court order.

Tomlin was married to Marion Olivia, b. Waterfield (1867-1948). They had five children, including the sculptor Stephen Tomlin .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephen Tomlin , stanford.edu, accessed May 25, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Tomlin, Thomas, Baron Tomlin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tomlin, Thomas James Chesshyre, Baron Tomlin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1867
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1935