Sir Reginald Brodie Dyke Acland KC, JP (18 May 1856 – 18 February 1924)[1] was a British barrister and judge.
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He was the sixth son of Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, 1st Baronet and his wife Sarah Cotton, eldest daughter of William Cotton.[2] His younger brother was Alfred Dyke Acland.[2] He was educated at Winchester College and then at University College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1878 and Master of Arts five year later.[3]
In 1881, Acland was called to the bar by the Inner Temple and worked as barrister-at-law.[3] He became junior counsel to the Admiralty in 1897 and subsequently was appointed Judge Advocate of the Fleet in 1904.[4] Acland was chosen Recorder of Shrewsbury in 1901, a post he held for the next two years.[3] He then served as Recorder of Oxford until his death in 1924.[3]
He was nominated a King's Counsel in 1904 and acted as counsel for Great Britain at the North Sea Commission in Paris in the following year.[3] In 1913, he was elected a member of the Royal Commission for Legal Delay and became a Bencher.[3] A year later, he was created a Knight Bachelor.[5] Acland sat in the General Council of the Bar and was treasurer of the Barristers' Benevolent Association.[4] He was Justice of the Peace for Berkshire and chaired the London Hospital Saturday Fund.[4]
On 12 August 1885, he married Helen Emma Fox, daughter of Reverend Thomas Fox, and had by her four children, two sons and two daughters.[1]
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| Preceded by Arthur Richard Jelf |
Recorder of Shrewsbury 1901–1903 |
Succeeded by John William St Lawrence Leslie |
| Preceded by Hon. Alfred Lyttelton |
Recorder of Oxford 1903–1924 |
Succeeded by The Lord Trevethin |
| Preceded by Alexander Stavely Hill |
Judge Advocate of the Fleet 1904 – 1924 |
Succeeded by Charles Murray Pitman |