The Lord Uthwatt | |
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Lord of Appeal in Ordinary | |
In office 9 January 1946 – 24 April 1949 | |
Preceded by | The Lord Russell of Killowen |
Succeeded by |
The Lord Greene The Viscount Radcliffe |
Justice of the High Court | |
In office 1941–1946 | |
Preceded by | Sir Stafford Crossman |
Succeeded by | Sir Ronald Roxburgh |
Personal details | |
Born | 25 April 1879 |
Died | 24 April 1949 | (aged 69)
Alma mater | |
Augustus Andrewes Uthwatt, Baron Uthwatt PC (25 April 1879 – 24 April 1949 [1]) was an Australian-born British judge.
Born in Ballarat, Victoria, he was the son of Thomas Andrewes Uthwatt and his wife Annie Hazlitt. [2] He was educated at Ballarat College and the University of Melbourne where he resided at Trinity College from 1896. He was awarded a first-class Bachelor of Arts degree in 1899 and subsequently studied for the Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree. [3] He went to Balliol College, Oxford in 1901, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Civil Law, receiving the Vinerian Scholarship. [2] He received the highest mark on the BCL despite graduating with second-class honours. [3] After his admission to Gray's Inn in 1901, he was called to the bar three years later and became a bencher in 1927. [4] He was a pupil barrister of Chancery specialist Robert John Parker (later Lord Parker of Waddington). [3]
As he was unable to serve during the First World War, Uthwatt served as legal adviser to the Ministry of Food from 1915 until 1918 and became a member of the Council of Legal Education in 1929. [2] He refused to accept a knighthood for his wartime services. [3] He was junior counsel to HM Treasury, the Board of Trade and the Attorney General for England and Wales in 1934. [2]
Uthwatt was nominated a Judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice in 1941 and subsequently created a Knight Bachelor. [4]
On 9 January 1946, he was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and received thereby additionally a life peerage with the title Baron Uthwatt, of Lathbury, in the County of Buckingham. [5] Following his appointment, he was sworn of the Privy Council in February of the same year. [4] He served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary until his death in 1949.
In 1927, he married Mary Baxter Bonhote. [2] They did not have any children of their own, though they did adopt a daughter. [2] [3] In April 1949 Uthwatt died, aged 69, of a heart attack at his home in Sandwich, Kent. [6] His funeral was held at All Saints Church in Lathbury, Buckinghamshire. [3] The service was conducted by his brother, Ven. William Uthwatt ( Archdeacon of Huntingdon). [3]
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