James Hannen, Baron Hannen
James Hannen, Baron Hannen, of Burdock in the County of Sussex PC FRS (* 1821 in Peckham, † March 29, 1894 ) was a British lawyer who most recently as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a Life Peer and member of the House of Lords was.
Life
After visiting the St Paul 's School graduated Hannen, son of a London merchant, to study law at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg and received after the end of 1848 his legal approval to the Chamber of Lawyers ( Inns of Court ) of the Middle Temple. He then began working as a barrister in 1863 and worked as a legal adviser to the Treasury (Treasury).
In 1868, he joined the judicial service and served until 1872 as a judge at the former Civil Court of England ( Court of Queen's Bench ). At the same time he was defeated in 1868 Knight Bachelor and led since then the additional name "Sir". In addition, in 1868 he was Serjeant -at -law. After completing his work at the Court of Queen's Bench, he was between 14 November 1872 and its dissolution on 1 November 1875 as the successor of James Wilde Judge of the Testament court ( Court of Probate ), and at the same time judge at the divorce and marriage court ( Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes ). As such, he was born in 1872 and Privy Councillor.
Following Hannen, who in 1878 also known as " Bencher " of the Bar of the Middle Temple, was on November 1, 1875 the first president of wills, divorce and Admiralty Division ( Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division ) responsible at the newly founded and for England and Wales high Court of Justice, and held this office of judge to 1891. During this time he was also chairman of the so-called 1888 Parnell Commission, a commission of inquiry, which dealt with allegations against the politician Charles Stewart Parnell and ultimately led to its rehabilitation.
Most recently, Hannen, who is also a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1891, by a Letters Patent of January 29, 1891 due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a Life Peer with the title Baron Hannen, of Burdock in the County of Sussex, a member of the House of Lords appointed to the peerage and worked until 1893 as Lord Justice (Lord of Appeal in Ordinary). As such, it was 1892 and arbiter in matters of hunting of seals in the Bering Sea.
His younger brother Nicholas John Hannen was also a lawyer and, among others, 1891-1900 President of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan (British Supreme Court for China and Japan) and at the same time from 1891 to 1897 Head of the Consulate General in Shanghai. His son, Nicholas Hannen was a well known actor who 1931-1962 in numerous films such as Henry V (1944 ), Quo vadis? (1951) and Richard III. (1955 ) participated.