Gorell Barnes, 1st Baron Gorell
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John Gorell Barnes, 1st Baron Gorell PC (16 May 1848 – 22 April 1913), was a British lawyer and judge.
Biography
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Gorell was the eldest son of Henry Barnes, a shipowner of Liverpool, and was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge.[1] where he took his degree in 1868.Template:Sfn He began work as a solicitor,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". but was called to the Bar in 1876 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1888.Template:Sfn
He was well known as an expert in Admiralty cases, and in 1892 was made a Judge of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice, where he acted as president during the illness of Sir Francis Jeune in late 1902.[2] When Jeune retired in 1905, Gorell was appointed president of the division from 1905 until 1909. He was admitted to the Privy Council in 1905 and in 1909 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Gorell, of Brampton in the County of Derby. He died in April 1913, aged 64, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Henry Gorell Barnes.Template:Sfn
Family
Lord Gorell married Mary, daughter of Thomas Mitchell, in 1881.Template:Sfn
Arms
Notes
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References
- De Montmorency, James Edward Geoffrey, John Gorell Barnes, First Lord Gorell (1848-1913), A Memoir , London: John Murray, 1920.
- Kidd, Charles; Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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- Attribution
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- 1848 births
- 1913 deaths
- Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge
- 19th-century English judges
- Barons Gorell
- English King's Counsel
- 19th-century King's Counsel
- Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
- Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division judges
- Knights Bachelor
- Members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
- 20th-century English judges
- Peers created by Edward VII
- Presidents of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division