Thomas Warrington, 1st Baron Warrington of Clyffe

Thomas Rolls Warrington, 1st Baron Warrington of Clyffe PC, QC (29 May 1851-26 October 1937), known as Sir Thomas Warrington between 1904 and 1926, was a British lawyer and judge.

Warrington was called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn, in 1875, and after acquiring a large practice, became a Queen's Counsel in 1895.[1] In 1904 he was appointed a judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice and knighted.[2] In 1915 he became a Lord Justice of Appeal and sworn of the Privy Council.[3] On his retirement in 1926 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Warrington of Clyffe, of Market Lavington in the County of Wiltshire.[4]

Lord Warrington of Clyffe died in October 1937, aged 86, when the barony became extinct.

References

  1. ^ London Gazette: no. 26590. p. 342. 18 January 1895.
  2. ^ London Gazette: no. 27715. p. 6043. 20 September 1904.
  3. ^ London Gazette: no. 29149. p. 4169. 30 April 1915.
  4. ^ London Gazette: no. 33216. p. 6884. 29 October 1926.
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Warrington of Clyffe
1926 – 1937		 Extinct