Hubert Parker, Baron Parker of Waddington

Hubert Lister Parker, Baron Parker of Waddington PC ( * May 28, 1900; † September 15, 1972 ) was a British lawyer.

Life

Parker was the youngest son of Robert Parker, Baron Parker of Waddington, who was Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. He attended Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He earned a degree in geology and planning to enter the oil business. This he rejected in 1922 and was admitted to the bar in 1924.

In 1954 he was appointed to the Court of Appeal ( England and Wales ) and appointed Privy Councillor. In 1958 he became Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales and remained so until 1971. September 30 of the same year he was appointed Life peer as Baron Parker of Waddington, of Waddington in the County of Yorkshire, this title has been bestowed on his father. He supported the abolition of the death penalty in the UK.

1972, a year after his retirement, he died on the cattle farm he had operated together with his wife for 48 years.

Publications

  • The history and development of commercial arbitration, 1959
  • The English system of tribunals and inquiries, 1960
  • Presentation of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of London to Her Majesty's judges, 1958-1966, 1967
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