Francis Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed, PC (8 August 1899 – 3 October 1966) was a British judge who served as

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, and subsequently became a

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Background and education

Evershed was the son of Frank Evershed, a brewer and sportsman, and his wife Florence Helen, daughter of Thomas Lowe. He was educated at

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and

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. During the

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he was a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. In January 1923, he was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn.Francis Raymond Evershed, 1st and last Baron Evershed
/ref> He then practiced at the Chancery bar.

Legal and judicial career

Evershed was made a K.C. in 1933 and a

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of Lincoln's Inn in 1938. He became a High Court Judge in 1944 when he was knighted, and

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in 1947, when he was also made a

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. Between 1949 and 1962, he was

and served as the U.K. Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at

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in 1950. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Evershed, of

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in the County of Derby, on 20 January 1956. In 1962, he was made a

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, and was succeeded as Master of the Rolls by

Lord Denning Alfred Thompson "Tom" Denning, Baron Denning (23 January 1899 – 5 March 1999) was an English lawyer and judge. He was called to the bar of England and Wales in 1923 and became a King's Counsel in 1938. Denning became a judge in 1944 whe ...

Personal life

Lord Evershed married Cecily Elizabeth Joan, daughter of Sir Charles Alan Bennett, in 1928. The title became extinct on his death in October 1966, aged 67. Evershed Achievement

References

1899 births 1966 deaths Military personnel from Staffordshire People educated at Clifton College 20th-century English judges Knights Bachelor Law lords Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Royal Engineers officers Chancery Division judges Masters of the Rolls 20th-century King's Counsel English King's Counsel Members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Place of birth missing Place of death missing Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Hereditary barons created by Elizabeth II {{Life-peer-stub