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[Name]: Sir Roy Mickel Wilson
[Inns of Court]: Gray's Inn (1931)
[University]: University of GlasgowBalliol College, Oxford
[Notes]: Wilson was born in 1903, the son of a priest, and grew up in Scotland. He practised as a barrister on the South-Eastern Circuit, although his legal career was interrupted by service in the Second World War, wherein he rose to the rank of Brigadier. In 1950, he was appointed Recorder of Faversham, serving for only a year; he became Recorder of Croydon in 1957, but left that office in 1961 when he became President of the Industrial Court (having previously spent three years on the Industrial Disputes Tribunal). He remained President until 1976 (by which time the court had been renamed the Industrial Arbitration Board). He was involved in a number of committees of inquiry and in 1971 was acting Chairman of the Race Relations Board. Elected a Bencher of Gray's inn in 1958, he served as its Treasurer in 1973, and had been knighted eleven years earlier. He died in 1982.
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[Name]: Professor Seymour Gonne Vesey-FitzGerald
[Inns of Court]: Gray's Inn (1921)
[University]: Keble College, Oxford
[Notes]: Vesey-FitzGerald was born in 1884, the son of a senior member of the Indian Civil Service (ICS). After graduating, he joined the ICS in 1907, serving in the Central Provinces as a registrar, district judge and eventually legal secretary to the Legislative Council. He returned to England in 1923 and taught "oriental laws" in Oxford and London throughout the 1920s and early 1930s. In 1927, he became Lecturer in Hindu and Mohamedan Laws at the Inns of Court. In 1935, he became Supervisor of the Indian Civil Service Probationers at the University of London, and two years later became Reader in Indian Law. Between 1946 and 1951, he was then Professor of Oriental Laws at the School of Oriental and African Studies and was head of the department from 1948, and Dean of the University of London's Faculty of Law between 1948 and 1951, when he retired. He died three years later.
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[Name]: David Karmel, CBE
[Inns of Court]: Gray's Inn (1928)
[University]: Trinity College, Dublin
[Notes]: Born in 1907, Karmel practised on the Northern Circuit; his career was interrupted by service in the Western Desert Campaign, Tunisia, Italy and Yugoslavia in the Second World War, during which he was injured and rose to the rank of Major. He was appointed Recorder of Wigan in 1952, serving for ten years. In 1970, he became Deputy Chairman of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Gloucestershire, but that appointment ended when he became Recorder of the Crown Court in 1972. He retired in 1979. He served on or chaired several committees of inquiry, and was a bencher (from 1954) and then Treasurer (in 1970) of Gray's Inn. Appointed a CBE in 1967, he died in 1982.
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[Name]: Sir Geoffrey Lawrence
[Inns of Court]: Middle Temple (1930)
[University]: New College, Oxford
[Notes]: Lawrence was born in 1902, and was a pupil of Eric Neve; he practised on the South Eastern Circuit. He was Recorder of Tenterden between 1948 and 1951, and sat on the Royal Commission on Marriage and Divorce in 1951. He was appointed Recorder of Canterbury the following year, serving until he became Chairman of the National Incomes Commission in 1962; he occupied the chair until 1965, when he was appointed a High Court Judge. In 1957, he had led the defence for John Bodkin Adams. He had also been Chairman of the General Council of the Bar (1960-62) and was appointed Chairman of the Court of Quarter Sessions for West Sussex in 1953. Knighted in 1963, he died in 1967.
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[Name]: James Gonville Strangman
[Inns of Court]: Middle Temple (1927)
[University]: Trinity Hall, Cambridge
[Notes]: Born in 1902, he was the son of Sir Thomas Strangman, QC. He was made a bencher of the Middle Temple in 1958, and died in 1977.
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[Name]: Harold Richard Bowman Adie-Shepherd
[Inns of Court]: Inner Temple (1928)
[University]: Trinity College, Oxford
[Notes]: Born in 1904, the son of a barrister, Adie-Shepherd was known by the surname Shepherd for some of his career. He practised on the North-Eastern Circuit, although his career was interrupted by service in the Army during the Second World War. In 1948, he was appointed Recorder of Pontefract, then in 1950 Recorder of York and Solicitor-General of the County Palatine of Durham. He was appointed a County Court Judge in 1955, serving until 1962. Two years later, he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Cornwall, and then served as Chairman between 1966 and 1971. He was appointed a Recorder of the Crown Court in 1972, and retired the following year. He died in 1979.
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