ANGLER DROWNED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22489, 5 August 1936, Page 13

ANGLER DROWNED

LORD TREVETHI N'S FATE DRAWN INTO DEEP POOL (Received August 5, 12.45 a.m.) LONDON", August 4 Lord Trovethin was salmon fishing on the Wye —his favourite sport —when he stumbled in shallow water and fell into the rapid current of a deep pool. The chauffeur and another man waded out and, with the assistance of three Boy Scouts, brought Lord Trevethin to the bank, but he was dead. The late Lord Trevethin, who succeeded the Earl of Reading as Chief Justice of England in 1921, was born in 1843 and was educated for the law at Cambridge. He was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1869 and was Recorder of Windsor until 1904. From that date until 1921 he was a Judge of the High Court. In 1920 he was president of the War Compensation Court. From the outset of his career Lord Trevethin built up a reputation for solid capacity, and his strength lay in the argument of pure questions of law rather than in advocacy before a jury. In banking and commercial cases he won a high reputation. He wSs created first Baron of Blaengawney in 1921. His son, Lieutenant-Colonel C. T. Lawrence, succeeds to the title.