OBITUARY
LORD MERRIVALE
(Independent Cable Service.) (Received May 23, 9 a.m.)
LONDON, May 22. The death is announced of Lord Merrivale, President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the Law Courts from 1919 to 1933. He tried more than 11,0,00 divorces and awarded Lord Jellicoe and Admiral Beatty £22,685 in prize money following the Battle of Jutland.
Lord Merrivale of Walkhampton, the first baron, was born in 1855 and called to the Bar in 1885. He took silk in 1889. From 1897 to 1900 he was Recorder of Plymouth and Devonport and from 1897 to 1914 was Recorder of Devonport. In 1908 and 1927 he was Treasurer of Gray's Inn. In 1900-06 he was Conservative member of Parliament for Plymouth and later represented Exeter in the House ,of Commons until 1918. He acted as chairman of the Royal .Commission on Defence of the Realip Losses in 1.915 and of the Royal Commission on Liquor Trade Losses in the same year. In 1915 he became Attorney-General to the Prince of Wales and in 1916-18 W.as Chief Secretary for Ireland.. In 191.8 he was made a Lord Justice of Appeal and in J919 was president of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division, a post which he held until 1933. He was knighted in 1918 and became a P.C. in 1915.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 119, 23 May 1939, Page 9
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