William Pickford, 1st Baron Sterndale
President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division | |
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| In office 17 October 1918 – 31 October 1919 | |
| Preceded by | Sir Samuel Evans |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Merrivale |
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| Born | William Pickford 1 October 1848 Manchester, England |
| Died | 17 August 1923 (aged 74) King Sterndale, Derbyshire, England |
| Spouse |
Alice Mary Brooke
(m. 1880; died 1884) |
| Children | 2, including Mary |
| Alma mater | Exeter College, Oxford |
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William Pickford, 1st Baron Sterndale, President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division between 1918 and 1919 and as Master of the Rolls between 1919 and 1923.
Biography
Pickford was born in
As a junior Pickford appeared in the trial of
Recorder of Oldham in 1901, and then of Liverpool in 1904. He also represented the British government in 1905, in the inquiry after the Dogger Bank incident when Russia sunk some Hull trawlers.[1]
Pickford was appointed a judge of the High Court in 1907 and a
President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division and raised to the peerage as Baron Sterndale, of King Sterndale in the County of Derby, in 1918.[4] The following year he became Master of the Rolls
, a post he held until his death.
Family
Lord Sterndale married Alice Mary Brooke, of Sibton Park Suffolk, on 18 August 1880. They had two daughters, Dorothy Frances Pickford (b. 1881) and Mary (Molly) Ada Pickford (b. 1884). His wife Alice died after childbirth on 5 September 1884. Sterndale's daughter the Hon.
Member of Parliament for Hammersmith North from 1931 to 1934. Lord Sterndale died in August 1923, aged 74, when the barony became extinct. He is buried at King Sterndale Church near Buxton, Derbyshire
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References
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35525. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ "No. 28831". The London Gazette. 15 May 1914. p. 3909.
- ^ From: 'Appendix 1', Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 10: Officials of Royal Commissions of Inquiry 1870-1939 (1995), pp. 85–8. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=16611. Date accessed: 12 August 2007.
- ^ "No. 31013". The London Gazette. 15 November 1918. p. 13492.
- ^ "Sterndale, Baron (UK, 1918 - 1923)".
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