Augustus Uthwatt, Baron Uthwatt

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The Right Honourable
The Lord Uthwatt
PC
File:Sir Augustus Uthwatt 1942.jpg
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
In office
9 January 1946 – 24 April 1949
MonarchGeorge VI
Personal details
Born(1879-04-25)25 April 1879
Died24 April 1949(1949-04-24) (aged 69)
Alma mater

Augustus Andrewes Uthwatt, Baron Uthwatt PC (25 April 1879 – 24 April 1949[1]) was an Australian-born British judge.

Background

Born in Ballarat, Victoria, he was the son of Thomas Andrewes Uthwatt and his wife Annie Hazlitt.[2] He was educated at Ballarat College and the University of Melbourne where he resided at Trinity College from 1896. He was awarded a first-class Bachelor of Arts degree in 1899 and subsequently studied for the Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree.[3] He went to Balliol College, Oxford in 1901, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Civil Law, receiving the Vinerian Scholarship.[2] He received the highest mark on the BCL despite graduating with second-class honours.[3] After his admission to Gray's Inn in 1901, he was called to the bar three years later and became a bencher in 1927.[4] He was a pupil barrister of Chancery specialist Robert John Parker (later Lord Parker of Waddington).[3]

Career

As he was unable to serve during the First World War, Uthwatt served as legal adviser to the Ministry of Food from 1915 until 1918 and became a member of the Council of Legal Education in 1929.[2] He refused to accept a knighthood for his wartime services.[3] He was junior counsel to HM Treasury, the Board of Trade and the Attorney General for England and Wales in 1934.[2]

Uthwatt was nominated a Judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice in 1941 and subsequently created a Knight Bachelor.[4]

On 9 January 1946, he was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and received thereby additionally a life peerage with the title Baron Uthwatt, of Lathbury, in the County of Buckingham.[5] Following his appointment, he was sworn of the Privy Council in February of the same year.[4] He served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary until his death in 1949.

Family

In 1927, he married Mary Baxter Bonhote.[2] They did not have any children of their own, though they did adopt a daughter.[2][3] Uthwatt died, aged 69, of a heart attack at his home in Sandwich, Kent.[6] His funeral was held at All Saints Church in Lathbury, Buckinghamshire.[3] The service was conducted by his brother, Ven. William Uthwatt (Archdeacon of Huntingdon).[3]

Notable cases

As judge

  • Re Anstead [1943] Ch 161 (administration of estates)
  • Perera v Peiris [1949] AC 1 (privilege in libel cases)

Arms

Coat of arms of Augustus Uthwatt, Baron Uthwatt
Uthwatt Achievement.png
Crest
A Stag's Head erased Argent
Escutcheon
Argent on a Bend cotised Sable three pierced Mullets of the field

References

  1. ^ "Leigh Rayment - Peerage". Archived from the original on 8 June 2008. Retrieved 19 August 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ a b c d e f Who is Who 1947 (99th ed.). London: Adam & Charles Black. 1947. p. 2810.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Uthwatt, Augustus Andrewes, Baron Uthwatt (1879–1949), lawyer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36618. Retrieved 23 May 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ a b c "Gray's Inn, Official Website - Lord Uthwatt". Retrieved 19 August 2009.
  5. ^ "No. 37429". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 January 1946. p. 415.
  6. ^ "Sudden Death of Lord Uthwatt of Privy Council". The Canberra Times. 26 April 1949. Retrieved 19 August 2009.

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