THE BRITISH BENCH.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9918, 5 August 1910, Page 2

THE BRITISH BENCH.

_—+ —- TWO NEW JUDGES. United Pros* Association—By Elootrio Telegraph—Copyright. (Received August 5, 8.6 a.m.) LONDON, August L Mr Horace Edmund Avory, tho wellknown King's Counsel, and Mr Thomas H. Berridge, formerly Liberal member of the House of Commons for Warwick and Leamington, have been appointed Judges of the High Court. Mr Horace Edmund Avory, who is Recorder 1 of Kingston-on-Thames, was born in 1851, and was educated at King's College, London, and at Corpus Cristi College, Cambridge. He • was called to the Bar of the Inner Temple in 1875, and soon made obtaining a large and lucrative practice. In 1889 he was appointed. Junior Counsel to the Treasury at the Central Criminal Court, ten years later becoming Senior Counsel. _ _ Mr Thomas Henry Devereux Berridge was born in 1857, and was educated at the Uphollaud Grammar School and privately. Ho was admitted as a solicitor in 1878, and became a member of the legal .firm ..of. Messrs Burn and Berridge, solicitors to th«v Newfoundland Government, in 1882. .At the general election in January, lyUb, he stood in the Liberal interest for thfe Warwick and Leamington seat, which for a number of years had been represented by the Right Hon Alfred. Lyttelton, for some time Colonial Secretary, and still earlier by. the Right Hon Arthur Peel, the Unionist Speaker of the House of Commons, and won the seat bv a safe margin. At the lost general election he waß not a candidate for parliamentary honours.