John Hamilton, 1st Viscount Sumner

John Andrew Hamilton, 1st Viscount Sumner, Sumner Baron, of Ibstone in the County of Buckingham GCB PC ( born February 3, 1859 in Chorlton -on- Medlock, Lancashire, † May 24, 1934 ) was a British lawyer who most recently as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, due to the Appellate jurisdiction Act as a life peer was also a member of the House of Lords in 1876. In 1927 he was him finally heritable title ( Hereditary peerage ) of a Viscount Sumner awarded.

Life

Lawyer and judge

After visiting the Manchester Grammar School completed a Hamiliton Studied law at Balliol College, University of Oxford and received his legal approval in 1883 of the Bar Association ( Inns of Court ) of the Inner Temple. He then began working as a barrister and was (King 's Counsel ) appointed for his lawyer's services in 1901 for Attorney-General. As a lawyer, he was primarily concerned with commercial law and represented often conflicting points of view over the other known commercial lawyer at that time, Thomas Edward Scrutton. In 1906 he was settled legal adviser to the University of Oxford and at the end of this activity in 1909 also known as " Bencher " of the Bar of the Inner Temple.

In 1909 he became a judge at the Chamber of Civil Cases ( King's Bench Division ) to the Commissioner for England and Wales High Court of Justice, and held this office of judge until 1912. At the same time he was defeated in 1909, Knight Bachelor and led since then the additional name "Sir".

After completion of the judges work at High Court of Justice in 1912 was 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 1913. In addition, he was appointed to the Privy Councillor in 1912 also.

Lord Justice and the House of Lords member

By Letters Patent of October 20, 1913 Hamilton was appointed because of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a Life peer with the title Baron Sumner, of Ibstone in the County of Buckingham member of the House of Lords to the nobility and worked until 1930 as Lord Justice ( Lord of Appeal in Ordinary).

As such, he was in 1918 appointed Chairman of the Committee for the cost of living of the working class as well as the Committee for British and Foreign rights issues. Lord Sumner was also a member of the British delegation at the Reparation at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 and 1920 with the Grand Cross ( Knight Grand Cross ) of the Order of the Bath honored. He also served in 1921 as Chairman of the Royal Commission for the Restitution of suffering and damage due to hostile actions ( Royal Commission on Compensation for Suffering and Damage by Enemy Action ) and in 1926 as Chairman of the House of Lords EU Committee on the so-called Abeyance. In 1930 he was also Treasurer of the Law Society of the Inner Temple.

On January 31, 1927 he inherited the title ( Hereditary peerage ) of a Viscount Sumner was awarded for his many years. However, since he died childless, the title became extinct with his death, so that he was the first and only Viscount Sumner.