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[Name]: Sir Roy Mickel Wilson
[Inns of Court]: Gray's Inn (1931)
[University]: University of GlasgowBalliol College, Oxford
[Notes]: Wilson was born in 1903, the son of a priest, and grew up in Scotland. He practised as a barrister on the South-Eastern Circuit, although his legal career was interrupted by service in the Second World War, wherein he rose to the rank of Brigadier. In 1950, he was appointed Recorder of Faversham, serving for only a year; he became Recorder of Croydon in 1957, but left that office in 1961 when he became President of the Industrial Court (having previously spent three years on the Industrial Disputes Tribunal). He remained President until 1976 (by which time the court had been renamed the Industrial Arbitration Board). He was involved in a number of committees of inquiry and in 1971 was acting Chairman of the Race Relations Board. Elected a Bencher of Gray's inn in 1958, he served as its Treasurer in 1973, and had been knighted eleven years earlier. He died in 1982.
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[Name]: William Latey, CBE
[Inns of Court]: Middle Temple (1916)
[University]: —
[Notes]: Latey was born in 1885, the son of John Latey, editor of The Illustrated London News. He was war correspondent for the News Chronicle (1914–15), then served in the Ministry of Munitions (1916–18), and was appointed an MBE in 1918. He began practising as a barrister on the Oxford Circuit the following year, specialising in probate and divorce law, becoming an authority on the latter and authoring Latey on Divorce (1952). During the Second World War, he was an ARP Warden for the Temple and City, and was appointed a bencher in 1947. From 1952 to 1964 he was a Divorce Commissioner. He became Treasurer of the Middle Temple in 1966, and served as President of the Medico-Legal Society (1956–57). He was chairman of the Legal Board of National Marriage Guidance Council, and appointed CBE in 1965. He died in 1976. His son, Sir John Latey, was a judge.
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[Name]: Sir Stephen Gerald Howard
[Inns of Court]: Lincoln's Inn (1924)
[University]: Balliol College, Oxford
[Notes]: Born in 1896 and brought up in East Anglia, Howard's father Major Stephen Howard was the Liberal MP for Sudbury. After serving in the Royal Flying Corps and then Royal Air Force during the First World War, he completed his studies and then established a busy practice in criminal law. He was Recorder of Bury St Edmunds between 1943 and 1945 and then a senior Prosecuting Counsel from 1945 to 1950. He was also successively Recorder of Ipswich (1947–58) and Southend (1958–61), as well as Chairman of the Courts of Quarter Sessions for Cambridgeshire (1947–52) and East and West Suffolk (1952–61), as well as the Conservative MP for Cambridgeshire between 1950 and 1961. In 1961, he was appointed a High Court Judge, serving until retirement in 1971. He had been knighted on his elevation to the High Court, and died in 1973.
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[Name]: Sir John Galway Foster, KBE
[Inns of Court]: Inner Temple (1927)
[University]: New College, Oxford
[Notes]: Born in 1904, Foster was the son of an Army general. He was elected to a Prize Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, in 1924, and became a non-resident fellow after his call to the bar. He then established a successful common law practice, serving as Recorder of Dudley (1936–38) and Oxford (1938–51, 1956–64). He also lectured in private international law at the University of Oxford in the late 1930s, and saw service in the Second World War, initially as the first secretary of the British Embassy in Washington, and later as legal adviser to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (with the rank of brigadier). He served as the Conservative MP for Northwich between 1945 and 1974, and his political career included three years as parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Commonwealth Relations Office (1951–54). He was appointed a KBE in 1964, and died in 1982.
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[Name]: Geoffrey Glynn Blackledge, MC
[Inns of Court]: Middle Temple (1920)
[University]: St John's College, Oxford
[Notes]: Usually known by his middle name Glynn, Blackledge was born in 1894 and served in the First World War (earning the Military Cross with bar) before graduating. He practised on the Northern Circuit, with his career briefly interrupted by a period as stipendiary magistrate for Liverpool (1946–47). He was appointed Presiding Judge of the Liverpool Court of Passage in 1950, serving until his death in 1964.
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[Name]: Sir Richard Everard Augustine Elwes, OBE, TD
[Inns of Court]: Inner Temple (1925)
[University]: Christ Church, Oxford
[Notes]: Born in 1901, Elwes was the son of the singer Gervase Elwes. He practised on the Midland Circuit, and was standing counsel to the Jockey Club between 1938 and 1950. His practise was interrupted by service in the Second World War (he was appointed OBE in 1945). Elwes was then made a bencher of the Inner Temple in 1948, and served as Recorder of Nortampton (1946–58) and Chairman of the Court of Quarter Sessions for Rutland (1946–54), Derbyshire (1954–58) and Bedfordshire (1957–58), before he was appointed a High Court Judge in 1958, serving he retired in 1966, two years before his death. He had been knighted in 1958.
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