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* MR. JUSTICE SWIFT (BrlUsb Official Wireless.) (Received October 20, 11.10 a.m.) RUGBY, October 19. The death has occurred of Mr. Justice Swift, Judge of the King's Bench Division since 1920. He died at the age of 63 years. The Hon. Mr. Justice Swift was born in 1874 and educated at Liverpool and at the University of London, taking his LL.B. at the latter institution. He was called to the Bar in 1895 and was a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn in
1916. He took silk in 1912. From 1910 until 1918 he was Conservative M.P. for St. Helens. In 1915' he was appointed Recorder of Wigan, which office he held until 1920, when he was appointed to the King's Bench Division of the High Court. He was knighted (Sir Rigby Smith) in 1920.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 96, 20 October 1937, Page 13
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133OBITUARY Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 96, 20 October 1937, Page 13
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