MR. JUSTICE AVORY DIES
Refused Medical Attention (Received 14, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, June 13. Lord Hewart, Chief Justice, says, “My wife aud myself yesterday motored to Rye, where Sir Horace Avory was spending a holiday. We found him manifestly ill, and immediately got him to bed. He refused a doctor and nurse, protesting that he wag perfectly well, but he wag found dead on tho floor in tho morning.’’ The Rt. Hon. Sir Horace Edmund Avory had been a judge of the King’s Bench Division of tho High Court since 1910. He was 84 years of age. Educated at King’s College, London, and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, he became a barrister in the Inner Temple in 1875. In 1889 he was appointed junior counsel to the Treasury at the Central Criminal Court, and in 1899 senior counsel. He was also Recorder of Kingston-on-Thames. He was appointed a K.C. in 1901, wafc knighted in 1910, and became a Privy Councillor in 1932.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 152, 14 June 1935, Page 5
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