Nicholas Browne-Wilkinson, Baron Browne-Wilkinson
Nicolas Christopher Henry Browne-Wilkinson, Baron Browne-Wilkinson, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, PC (30 March 1930 – 25 July 2018) was a British judge who served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1991 to 2000, and Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1998 to 2000. Life and career Browne-Wilkinson was the sixth child and only son of the Rev Canon Arthur Browne-Wilkinson, Military Cross, MC, and of Mary Abraham, daughter of Charles Abraham (bishop of Derby), Charles Abraham, Bishop of Derby (suffragan), Bishop of Derby. He was educated at Lancing College, Lancing and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took a British undergraduate degree classification, First in Jurisprudence in 1952. He was Call to the bar, called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1953 and Queen's Counsel, took silk in 1972. He was a judge of the Court of Appeal of Jersey and of Courts of Guernsey, Guernsey from 1976 to 1977. In 1977, Browne-Wilkinson was appointed a Justice of the High Co ...
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The Right Honourable
''The Right Honourable'' (abbreviation: ''Rt Hon.'' or variations) is an honorific Style (form of address), style traditionally applied to certain persons and collective bodies in the United Kingdom, the former British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations. The term is predominantly used today as a style associated with the holding of certain senior public offices in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and to a lesser extent, Australia. ''Right'' in this context is an adverb meaning 'very' or 'fully'. Grammatically, ''The Right Honourable'' is an adjectival phrase which gives information about a person. As such, it is not considered correct to apply it in direct address, nor to use it on its own as a title in place of a name; but rather it is used in the Grammatical person, third person along with a name or noun to be modified. ''Right'' may be abbreviated to ''Rt'', and ''Honourable'' to ''Hon.'', or both. ''The'' is sometimes dropped in written abbreviated form, but is al ...
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