Reginald Acland

Sir Reginald Brodie Dyke Acland KC, JP (18 May 1856 – 18 February 1924)^[1] was a British barrister and judge.

Background

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]

Career

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.<ref name = Who'sWho/> Acland was appointed Recorder of Shrewsbury in November 1901,^[4][5] 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.^[6] Acland sat in the General Council of the Bar and was treasurer of the Barristers' Benevolent Association.<ref name = Who'sWho/> He was Justice of the Peace for Berkshire and chaired the London Hospital Saturday Fund.<ref name = Who'sWho>Who is Who 1914. London: Adam & Charles Black Ltd. 1912. p. 8. </ref>

Family

On 12 August 1885, Acland married Helen Emma Fox, daughter of Reverend Thomas Fox, and had by her four children, two sons and two daughters.^[1]

Works

•  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Prisoners of War". Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York. 

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