Cyril Barnet Salmon, Baron Salmon, (28 December 1903 – 7 November 1991) was a British judge.

Early life and career

Salmon was the son of Montagu Salmon (1878–1943), tobacco merchant, and Marian Nina Trevor, née Abrahams, his wife. He was the grandson of Barnett Salmon (1829–1897) co-founder of Salmon & Gluckstein, tobacco merchants. He was educated at

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and

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, where he read Law. He was

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by the

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in 1925, and was the

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of Walter Monckton, before joining the chambers of Lord Wright at 5 Crown Office. During

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, Salmon was commissioned into the

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in 1940, and was attached to the Eighth Army as a

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. He ended the war with the rank of

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. Salmon took silk in April 1945. His chambers had been destroyed by bombing during the war, and little of his pre-war practice remained. Nevertheless, Salmon successfully rebuilt his practice. He served as Recorder of Gravesend between 1947 and 1957, and was appointed a Commissioner of Assize for the Wales and Chester Circuit in 1955.

Judicial career

Salmon was appointed to the High Court in 1957 and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division, and received the customary knighthood. In 1964, he was made a

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and sworn of the Privy Council. On 10 January 1972, he was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, being created, at the same time, a

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with the title Baron Salmon, of

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in the County of Kent. He presided over the trials of the leaders of the 1958 Notting Hill race riots, sentencing the white youths who led the riots to 5 years in jail. This exemplary sentencing had the effect of preventing further trouble in the area.

Personal life

On 25 July 1929, Salmon married Rencie Vanderfelt (d. 1942), the daughter of Sydney Gorton Vanderfelt, and they had two children, Gai Rencie Salmon (b. 1933) and David Neville Cyril Salmon (b. 1935). Following his first wife's death in 1942, Salmon remarried in 1946 to Jean Beatrice Morris, Lady Morris (1912–1989), the elder daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel David Edward Maitland-Makgill-Crichton, and the divorced wife of Michael William Morris, 2nd Baron Morris.

Arms

References

* 1903 births 1991 deaths Gluckstein family Law lords Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

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