Cyril Asquith, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone
Cyril Asquith, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone, of Bishopstone in the County of Sussex PC KC ( * February 5, 1890; † August 24, 1954 ) was a British lawyer who most recently as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 Life peer and member of the House of Lords was.
Life
Cyril Asquith was the fourth son of the first marriage of the later Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith and thus a brother of Raymond Asquith and Violet Bonham Carter. By the second marriage of his father with writer Margot Asquith, he was also a half-brother of Elizabeth Asquith and Anthony Asquith.
He completed post-school study of law. After his graduation, he received in 1920 the lawyer is admitted to the Bar Association ( Inns of Court ) of the Inner Temple and then began working as a lawyer. For his lawyer merits him the title of a 1936 Kronanwalts was awarded (King 's Counsel ).
After he was 1937-1938 as a recorder ( magistrates ) of Salisbury worked, he became in 1938 judge in the chamber for civil matters ( King's Bench Division ) was sent to the Commissioner for England and Wales High Court of Justice, and held this office of judge until 1946. Simultaneously he defeated Knight Bachelor in 1938 and led since then the additional name "Sir". During this time, moreover, was his appointment in 1939 to the so-called " Bencher " of the Bar of the Inner Temple.
Upon completion of this activity took place in 1946 judge his appeal to the judge ( Lord Justice of Appeal ) at the Court of Appeal, which is responsible for England and Wales Court of Appeal, where he worked until 1951. In addition, he was appointed to the Privy Councillor 1951.
Last Asquith was appointed in 1876 as a life peer with the title Baron Asquith of Bishopstone, of Bishopstone in the County of Sussex, a member of the House of Lords to the peerage on April 23, 1951 due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act and worked until his death in 1954 as Lord Justice (Lord of Appeal in Ordinary).
From his marriage with Anne Stephanie Pollock, a daughter of Sir Adrian Donald Wilde Pollock KCMG, who was treasurer 1912-1943 ( Chamberlain ) of London, were born two sons and two daughters. The husband of his younger daughter was Sir John Frederick Eustace Stephenson, who is also Lord Justice of Appeal was last 1971-1985.