Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed PC, KC (8 August 1899 - 3 October 1966 ) was British judge who served as Master of the Rolls, and subsequently became a Law Lord [1].
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Evershed was the son of Frank Evershed, a brewer and sportsman, and his wife Florence Helen, daughter of Thomas Lowe. He was educated at Clifton College and Oxford University. During the First World War he was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. In 1923, he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn and became a barrister.[2]
Evershed was made a KC in 1933 and a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn in 1938. He became a High Court Judge in 1944 when he was knighted, and Lord Justice of Appeal in 1947 when he was also made a Privy Counsellor. Between 1949 and 1962 he was Master of the Rolls and served as the UK Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague in 1950.[2] He was raised to the peerage as Baron Evershed, of Stapenhill in the County of Stafford, on 20 January 1956.[3]
Lord Evershed married Cecily Elizabeth Joan, daughter of the Honourable Charles Alan Bennett, in 1928. The title became extinct on his death in October 1966, aged 67.[2]
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| Preceded by The Lord Greene |
Master of the Rolls 1949–1962 |
Succeeded by The Lord Denning |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| New creation | Baron Evershed 1956–1966 |
Extinct |