LAMBETH’S CADI

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 29 March 1938, Page 10

LAMBETH’S CADI

DEATH OF MR F. T. BARRINGTONWARD 'By Air Mail—From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON. 3rd March. Throughout the dingy purlieus of Lambeth one of South London’s most congested and workaday suburbs, there is sincere grief over Mr P\ T. Barring-ton-Ward’s demise at the early age of 57. Though he presided over Lambeth Police Court only eight years, and was far from being a Nestor, he established himself as a trusted counsellor to a host of poor and perplexed subjects. IHe had, in fact, something of the classic Baghdad cadi about him. He took in- | finite pains to fathom even the pettiest domestic upset, handled his clientele with perfect tact and aplomb, never lost his patience or his temper, and was always ready with shrewd and kindly counsel. To hear him keeping up hu* end of a court dialogue in the Lambeth vernacular: “I see! So then you dotted him one on the nose!”—nobody would suspect that the figure on the bench was that of the most brilliant law scholars of his day. He was in his way the middle-aged Little Father of all the Lambeth groundlings, and he will be sorely missed by a discerning and appreciative under-dogdom.