Samuel Porter, Baron Porter

Samuel Lowry Porter, Baron Porter of Long Field in the County of Tyrone, GBE, PC ( February 7, 1877 *, † February 13, 1956 ) 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 schooling Porter holds a degree in Law and was awarded in 1905 the lawyer is admitted to the Bar Association ( Inns of Court ) of the Inner Temple, whereupon he took up work as a barrister. During World War II he served in the British Army and was recently promoted to captain and member of the Order of the British Empire. After the war he resumed his work as a barrister and was appointed again to twenty years after his legal Admission 1925 Solicitor General (King 's Counsel ).

1928 Porter moved in the judicial service and was initially Recorder ( magistrates ) of Newcastle-under -Lyme, and then 1932-1934 Recorder of Walsall. 1934 he was appointed a judge of the Chamber of Civil Cases ( King's Bench Division ) on the England and Wales competent High Court of Justice, and held this office of judge until 1938. At the same time he was beaten in 1934 Knight Bachelor and led since then the additional name "Sir".

Last Porter was appointed by Letters Patent of March 28, 1938 due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a Life Peer with the title Baron Porter of Long Field in the County of Tyrone member of the House of Lords to the nobility and worked until his resignation on 14 October 1954 as Lord Justice (Lord of Appeal in Ordinary). Lord Porter, the 1938 Privy Councillor, was awarded in 1951 the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire.

Publications

• The Education Bill of 1906, on analysis, and a letter survey of the education question from 1870, 1907