Cecil Coward
Sir Cecil Allen Coward (27 December 1845 - 27 July 1938) was a British lawyer.
Cecil Allen Coward was born at 11 Minerva Terrace, Islington, London, on 27 December 1845, the second child and only son of John William Smith Coward (1815–1888), a surgeon, and his first wife, Anna Eliza, née Bemfield (d. 1847).[1]
In 1856, the family emigrated to New Zealand, settling in Christchurch. In 1865, he returned to England to train as a barrister.[1] He joined Thomas and Hollams, which became Coward, Chance & Co. and, in 1987, Clifford Chance.[1] In 1910, he succeeded Sir John Hollams as the firm's senior partner.[1]
Coward was knighted in 1928, and retired that year.[1] In 1874, he married Catherine Thomas, the younger daughter of the firm's senior partner from 1862 to 1873 and then a director of the Central Bank.[1] They had four daughters and a son, Cecil Robert Coward, and lived in Kensington, London, with five servants.[1]
Coward died at his house in 10 Melbury Road, Kensington on 27 July 1938, aged 92.[1]