OBITUARY

Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1930, Page 6

OBITUARY

LORD RIRKENI-lE.VD,

(United Press Aetoeuuaon—Bv Eleetru Telegraph—Copyright).

(Received this day at 8 a.m.) . LONDON, Sept; 30. Obituary.—-Lord Birkenhead.

131RKENH!EAO ;i , EARL Secretary for Indian, iS T ov ; 1.924,32, _ GrosvcnoK Gardens, -.and , Charlton, •*' hearßanj>ur,y„ a. .57,; i,Splicitor-Gep r earal in Coalition.. Ministry, fr.oin May, 1915, '.anil Attorney-iGenera)], ats : At. P.. ; f lie caught the' attention or , the House by a witty and] ’«audacious, maiden speech ...and is one of his party’s best speakers. Is a Bencher of Gray’s Tnip Was president of the Oxford Union, and ! is' the author 'of several • works upon international !./ law. Elected Hon. Fellow Wadhnm College, 191.2. Undertook the thankloss task of administering the Press Censorship in the war, and later went to the front as major. Knighted on becoming Solicitor-Geiferal. 1915. Remained jAttorney-General on change of Government in Dec., 1916. Visited U.S.A. and Canada at the ed of 1917. Baronetcy conferred Jan., 1918. Appointed Lord Chancellor ' Jan.,' 1919, and created Lord Birkenhead. A viseoiinUy was conferred, 'June, 1921. The Law of Property Act, introduced by ..-•him in 1922, was a ’ remarkable achievement in co-ordinating comr| plicated laws. Raised to an Earldom, Nov., 1922. His Pectoral address in Glasgow. Nov., 1923, was much criticised. He published in 1924 some likely sketches of contemporary statesmen. He . joined Mr Baldwin’s Cabinet as Sec, for India, Nov.. : 1924. Published “Fourteen English Judges,” and “Famous Trials” 1926, and “Law Life, and Letters’’ in 1927.