Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow
Donald Bradley Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow, of Ewelme in the County of Oxford OBE PC KC ( * August 24, 1889, † November 18, 1960 ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party and a lawyer, who for several years a deputy in the House of Commons and most recently as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, due to the Appellate jurisdiction Act 1876 as a Life peer was also a member of the House of Lords. In 1945 he served briefly as Minister of the Interior.
Life
Lawyer and Member of Parliament House of Commons
Somervell, whose father was 1887-1920 Vice-Principal ( Assistant Master) and Money Manager ( Bursar ) Harrow School, graduated after attending the Harrow School, first studying chemistry at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, before he followed her studies in law and graduated after 1916 received his legal approval to the chamber of Lawyers ( Inns of Court ) of the Inner Temple. After that he joined as a barrister at the law firm of William Jowitt, where he dealt in particular with cases from commercial law.
For his lawyer merits Somervell, the 1919, the Officer's Cross of the Order of the British Empire was awarded was in 1929 's Counsel (King 's Counsel ) appointed.
After he unsuccessfully took in the general election on 30 May 1929 as the candidate of the Conservative Party in the constituency of Crewe, he was elected in the subsequent general election of 27 October 1931 in this constituency to the House of Representatives and represented up to the elections on July 5, 1945 the interests of the conservative Party in the House of Commons.
Solicitor General, Attorney General and Minister of the Interior
Somervell, the 1933 so-called " Bencher " of the Bar of the Inner Temple, was appointed as successor by Boyd Merriman by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald to the Solicitor General for England and Wales on 29 September 1933 and held this office in the subsequent government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin until his replacement by Terence O'Connor on 18 March 1936., 1933, he was also beaten to the Knight Bachelor and led since then the additional name "Sir".
On March 18, 1936 Prime Minister Baldwin appointed him as successor to Thomas Inskip as Attorney General ( Attorney General ) of England and Wales. This office practiced Somervell, the Privy Councillor in 1938 and 1940-1946 as recorder ( magistrates ) of Kingston upon Thames worked until his replacement by David Maxwell Fyfe on 25 May 1945.
Following Somervell was Prime Minister Winston Churchill on 25 May 1945 as the successor of Herbert Stanley Morrison Secretary of the Interior ( Home Secretary ) appointed to his cabinet. However, the Office of the Home Secretary, he held only briefly up by Clement Attlee after the lower house election on July 5, 1945 a new Labour Government was formed and James Chuter Ede - new interior minister was.
Lord Justice and the House of Lords member
Somervell, who was 1945-1950 Trustee of the Tate Gallery, 1946, judge ( Lord Justice of Appeal ) was appointed to the Court of Appeal, which is responsible for England and Wales Court of Appeal, where he worked until 1954. During this time he was also from 1947 to 1953 Chairman of the Board (Board of Governors ) Harrow School.
By Letters Patent of October 4, 1954 Somervell was due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act appointed in 1876 as a life peer with the title Baron Somervell of Harrow, of Ewelme in the County of Oxford, a member of the House of Lords to the nobility and worked until his retirement on January 6, 1960 as Lord Justice (Lord of Appeal in Ordinary).