John Hamilton, 1st Viscount Sumner

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John Andrew Hamilton, 1st Viscount Sumner PC (3 February 1859 – 24 May 1934) was a British judge and peer.

Appointed to the Privy Council in 1912, Hamilton was Lord Justice of Appeal in 1912 and 1913. On 20 October 1913, he became a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was additionally enobled as a life peer with the title Baron Sumner, of Ibstone in the County of Buckinghamshire. He resigned as Lord of Appeal in 1930, having been created also a hereditary peer as Viscount Sumner on 31 January 1927. With his death both titles became extinct.

[edit] References

• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

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• Portraits of John Andrew Hamilton, Viscount Sumner at the National Portrait Gallery, London

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by: (new creation)	Viscount Sumner 1927–1934	Succeeded by: (extinct)