Albert Charles Clauson, 1st Baron Clauson

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, PC (14 January 1870 — 15 March 1946) was a British barrister and judge who sat as a Lord Justice of Appeal.

Background and education

Clauson was born on 14 January 1870 to Charles Clauson, a merchant, and his wife Julia Burton. After attending the Merchant Taylors' School in 1881 he was offered a scholarship to St John's College, Oxford, where he gained a first in classics and literature.

Legal and judicial career

In 1891 he was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn, and thanks to his association with his uncle,

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, he gained a large practice extremely early. Acting as editor of the seventh and eighth editions of Buckley's ''Company Law'', Clauson was made King's Counsel in 1910. During the

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he worked for the Admiralty for free, and in thanks was made a

in 1920. In 1926 Clauson was made a judge of the

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of the

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, receiving the customary knighthood. After twelve years on the bench he was sworn in as a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1936 and made a Privy Councillor, but retired in 1942. Following his retirement he was made Baron Clauson, of Hawkshead in the County of Hertford, and as a Lord of Appeal heard cases in the

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. Lord Clauson died on 15 March 1946, and having no children, the peerage became extinct on his death.

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