Samuel Porter, Baron Porter

For the Northern Irish judge and politician, see Samuel Clarke Porter.

Samuel Lowry Porter, Baron Porter GBE (7 February 1877 – 13 February 1956) was a British judge.

Porter served in World War I, gaining the rank of captain and receiving the MBE Called to the Bar, he was appointed King's Counsel in 1925.[1]

On 28 March 1938, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and created a life peer with the title Baron Porter, of Longfield in County Tyrone. A month later, he was invested to the Privy Council. In 1939, he was appointed to chair the Lord Chancellor's committee on defamation law. The committee's work was delayed as a result of World War II, not producing its report until 1948. The report's conclusions were implemented by the Defamation Act, enacted in 1952.[1]

Porter sat on the appeal of William Joyce, commonly known as "Lord Haw-Haw", who had been convicted of treason for his war-time propaganda broadcasts from Nazi Germany.[2] Porter resigned as Lord of Appeal in 1954, having been awarded the GBE.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Death of Lord Porter - Distinguished Judge", The Glasgow Herald, 14 February 1956, p. 8.
  2. ↑ (1946) A.C. 347
  3. ↑ Profile, cracroftspeerage.co.uk; accessed 14 June 2015.
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