John Hamilton, 1st Viscount Sumner

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

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.

He was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) in the 1920 Birthday Honours for his work in connection with the Treaty of Versailles and as chairman of the London Reparation Committee.

[edit] References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

[edit] External links

• 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)