Wilfred Greene, 1st Baron Greene

Wilfrid Arthur Greene, 1st Baron Greene, of Holmbury St Mary in the County of Surrey, MC OBE KC PC ( * July 16, 1883, † April 16, 1952 ) was a British lawyer, as an heir -peer ( Hereditary peer ) and most recently as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary was also a member of the House of Lords. Between 1937 and 1949 he served as Master of the Rolls one of the most outstanding judgeships in Britain.

Life

Lawyer and Lord Justice of Appeal

After attending Westminster College London Greene graduated in Law at Christ Church, University of Oxford. After graduation, he was awarded the 1908 his legal approval to the Chamber of Lawyers ( Inns of Court of the Inner Temple ). He then worked as a barrister before he his military service in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry made ​​its legal work during the First World War, where he was most recently promoted to captain of the 2nd Battalion. For his military merits him the Military Cross in 1918 and was awarded the Officer's Cross of 1919 Order of the British Empire.

After he subsequently worked as a lawyer again, Greene, (King 's Counsel ) in 1922, Attorney-General, was appointed in 1935 to the judge ( Lord Justice of Appeal ) at the Court of Appeal, which is responsible for England and Wales Court of Appeal. This was accompanied by his appointment as Privy Councillor and appointed to the knighthood as a Knight Bachelor, thus the appointment as "Sir".

Master of the Rolls, House of Lords Member and Lord Justice

On April 27, 1937, Greene successor of Robert Wright, Baron Wright as Master of the Rolls, and therefore Chairman of the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal. This important function of judge he held for twelve years until its replacement by Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed 1949.

During this time he was a Letters Patent dated 16 July 1941 as Baron Greene, of Holmbury St Mary in the County of Surrey, in the hereditary nobility ( Hereditary Peerage ) called and thus belonged to a member of the House of Lords.

After completing his work as Master of the Rolls Baron Greene was born on June 1, 1949 Lord Justice (Lord of Appeal in Ordinary) and has held this office less than a year until his retirement on May 6, 1950.

After his death extinguished the title of Baron Greene, as he died without male offspring.