Michael Morris,Baron Morris and 1st Baron Killanin,,known as Sir Michael Morris,Bt,from 1885 to 1889,was an Irish lawyer and judge. He was Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland from 1887 to 1889 and sat in the House of Lords as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1889 to 1900.
William Baliol Brett,1st Viscount Esher,PC,known as Sir William Brett between 1868 and 1883,was a British lawyer,judge,and Conservative politician. He was briefly Solicitor-General under Benjamin Disraeli and then served as a justice of the Court of Common Pleas between 1868 and 1876,as a Lord Justice of Appeal between 1876 and 1883 and as Master of the Rolls. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Esher in 1885 and further honoured when he was made Viscount Esher on his retirement in 1897.
James Richard Atkin,Baron Atkin,,commonly known as Dick Atkin,was an Australian-born British judge,who served as a lord of appeal in ordinary from 1928 until his death in 1944. He is especially remembered as the judge giving the leading judgement in the case of Donoghue v Stevenson in 1932,in which he established the modern law of negligence in the UK,and indirectly in most of the common law world.
Charles John Darling,1st Baron Darling,was an English lawyer,politician and High Court judge.
William Ventris Field,1st Baron Field PC was an English judge.
Sir George Edward Rich was an Australian lawyer and judge who served on the High Court of Australia from 1913 to 1950. He is the second-longest-serving judge in the court's history,behind Edward McTiernan. He retired at the age of 87,making him the oldest person to sit on the court.
Cyril Asquith,Baron Asquith of Bishopstone,PC was an English barrister and judge who served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1951 until his death three years later.
Sir Thomas Edward Scrutton was an English barrister,judge,and legal writer.
Sir Arthur Alexander Priestley was an English Liberal Party politician and cricketer. After three unsuccessful candidacies he held a seat in the House of Commons from 1900 to 1918. At cricket,he played for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and took part in and later led overseas touring sides between 1894 and 1897.
Sir Frank Douglas MacKinnon was an English lawyer,judge and writer,the only High Court judge to be appointed during the First Labour Government.
Herbert Hardy Cozens-Hardy,1st Baron Cozens-Hardy,(1838–1920) was a British politician and judge who served as Master of the Rolls from 1907 until 1918.
Sir Henry Alfred McCardie was a controversial British judge. Educated at King Edward's School,Birmingham he left school at 16 and spent several years working for an auctioneer before qualifying as a barrister and being called to the Bar in 1894. Despite his lack of a university degree and the business connections that went with it McCardie built up a successful practice in Birmingham and the Midland and Oxford Circuit through a combination of clear arguments,confident advocacy and intense work;he worked so late in his chambers that they became known as "the lighthouse". He moved to London to continue work in 1904 and was a popular barrister,on one day handling twenty-one cases in twenty-one different courts. At the peak of his career he was earning £20,000 while still a junior barrister;a large amount for that period.
The High Court of Justice in London,known properly as His Majesty's High Court of Justice in England,together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court,are the Senior Courts of England and Wales. Its name is abbreviated as EWHC for legal citation purposes.
Thomas Bury (1655–1722) was an English judge. He took part in the decision regarding the 1704 Aylesbury election. King George I raised Bury to the position of Chief Baron of the Exchequer.
Sir Arthur Kekewich was an English High Court judge.
William de Skipwith was a fourteenth-century English judge,who also served as a judge in Ireland. He held the office of Chief Baron of the Exchequer 1362-5. He suffered temporary disgrace when he was removed from office for corruption,but he was restored to favour,became Lord Chief Justice of Ireland 1370-2,and later returned to the English bench. He appears to have been the only High Court judge to have escaped impeachment by the English Parliament of 1388.
Sir Edward Ridley,PC was an English barrister,judge and Conservative politician.
Sir James Charles Mathew was an Irish-born judge. Born in an Irish Catholic family in Cork,Mathew was educated at the largely Protestant Trinity College,Dublin,before joining the English bar. In 1881,although still a junior barrister,he was appointed to the High Court of Justice,where he sat in the Queen's Bench Division and was said to be the best nisi prius judge of his time. He was promoted to the Court of Appeal in 1901,before resigned from the bench due to health reasons in 1905.
Sir Joseph Walton was an English lawyer and judge. He was a Justice of the High Court from 1901 until his sudden death in 1910.
Sir David Andrew Foxton is a British High Court judge.
