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.
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New creation | Baron Warrington of Clyffe 1926 – 1937 |
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