Judges and Counsel
 
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The intention on this page is to try and show the people involved in bringing some of the worst murderers to justice. Below is a list of people who were involved in both the defence and prosecution as well as sitting in judgement on the case. There are gaps which I try and fill as we go on. I would be grateful for any assistance in this.
 
 

 John Charles Bingham

Born 1840 - 1929

Notable Trials

1: Richard Brinkley

Sir Richard David Muir - Prosecutor

Born 1857 - 1924

Notable Trials

1 : Herbert John Bennett
2: Edward Hopwood
3 : Horace George Rayner
4: Frederick Jesse
5: Richard Brinkley
6 : Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen
7 : Alexander Campbell Mason
8 : Lieutenant Douglas Malcolm
 

Sir Terence James O'Connor - Kings Council

Born 1891 - 1940

Notable Trials

1 : Charlotte Bryant

Lord Walter George Frank Phillimore - Judge

Born 1845 - 1929

Notable Trials

1 : George Henry Parker
2 : Stephen Titus

Sir Gervais Rentoul - Kings Council

Born 1884 - 1946

Notable Trials

1 : Mrs Seddon
2 : James Thomas Collins

Sir Edward Ridley - Judge

Born 1843 - 1928

Notable Trials

1 : Arthur Devereux
2 : William Walter Burton

Lord Alexander Adair Roche - Judge

Born 1871 - 1956

Notable Trials

1 : Mrs Sarah Ann Hearn

Henry Delacombe Roome - Judge

Born 1882 - 1930

Notable Trials

1 : John Starchfield
2 : Alexander Campbell Mason
3 : Jean Pierre Vaquier
4 : Alfred Arthur Kopsch
5 : Browne & Kennedy
6 : Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen

Sir Sidney Arthur Taylor Rowlatt - Judge

Born 1862 - 1945

Notable Trials

1 : Jeannie Baxter
2 : Edward Ernest Black
3 : Fox, Sidney Harry
4 : Dhingra, Madar Lal
5 : The Seddons

Sir Thomas Edward Scrutton - Judge

Born 1856 - 1934

Notable Trials

1 : George Joseph Smith

Lord Hartley William Shawcross - Queens Council

Born 1902 -

Notable Trials

1 : John George Haigh

Sir John Edward Singleton - Judge

Born 1885 - 1957

Notable Trials

1 : Dr Buck Ruxton

Sir Alfred Aspinall Tobin - Kings Council Defence

Born 1855 - 1939

Notable Trials

1 : Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen

Sir Rigby Philip Watson Swift - Judge

Born 1874 - 1937

Notable Trials

1 : Alexander Campbell Mason
2: Reginald Woolmington,
3 : Fahmy, Marguerite Laurent
4: Frederick Field
5 : Frederick Jesse
6 : Charles Houghton
7 : John Robinson
8 : Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford

Sir George John Talbot - Judge

Born 1861 - 1938

Notable Trials

1 : Alfred Arthur Rouse
2 : Stanley Eric Hobday

St John Hutchinson - Kings Council

Born 1884 - 1942

Notable Trials

1 : Alfred Arthur Kopsch
2 : Frederick Field
3 : Edward Royal Chaplin

Sir Arthur Richard Jelf - Judge

Born 1837 - 1917
Notable Trials
1 : Edward Lawrence

Viscount Kilmuir of Creich - Lord High Chancellor

Born 1900 -

Notable Trials

1 : Chung Yo Miao
2 : Dr Buck Ruxton
3 : John George Haigh

Sir Henry Alfred McCardie - Judge

Born 1869 - 1933

Notable Trials

1 : Lieutenant Douglas Malcolm
2 : George Arthur Bailey

George Buchanan McClure - Prosecution

Born 1887 - 1955

Notable Trials

1 : Browne & Kennedy
2: Gordon Frederick Cummins
3 : Frederick Field
4 : Theodosios Petrou
5 : Edward Royal Chaplin
6 : William Teasdale
7 : Lionel Watson

Sir Frank Douglas Mackinnon - Judge

Born 1871 - 1946

Notable Trials

1 : Lock Ah Tam
2 : Charlotte Bryant

Sir Charles Mathews - Judge

Born 1850 - 1920

Notable Trials

1 : George Chapman
2 : Arthur Devereux

Sir Henry Curtis Bennett - Kings Council

Born 1879 - 1936

Notable Trials

1 : Herbert Rowse Armstrong
2 : Fahmy, Marguerite Laurent
3 : Jean Pierre Vaquier
4 : Wallace Benton
5 : Sidney Harry Fox
6 : Ronald True

Charles John Darling - Judge

Born 1849 - 1936

Notable Trials

1 : Herbert Rowse Armstrong
2 : Amelia Sach & Annie Walters
3 : Kitty Byron

George Elliot - Kings Council

Born : 1860 - 1916

Notable Trials

1 : George Chapman
2 : Samuel Herbert Dougal
3 : Arthur Devereux
4 : Horace George Rayner

Frederick Arthur Greer - Judge

Born 1863 - 1945

Notable Trials

1 : Frederick Rothwell Holt

Arthur Charles Fox-Davies - Kings Council

Born 1871 - 1928

Notable Trials

1 : Alexander Campbell Mason

Walter Frampton - Judge

Born 1871 - 1939

Notable Trials

1 : Mrs Elvira Barney
2 : Frederick Guy Browne (Browne & Kennedy)

Sir Eustance Cecil Fulton - Judge

Born 1880 - 1954

Notable Trials

1 : Fahmy, Marguerite Laurent
2 : Alfred Arthur Kopsch
3 : Frederick Field
4 : Theodosios Petrou
5 : Thomas Joseph Davidson

Sir Charles Frederick Gill - Kings Council

Born 1851 - 1923

Notable Trials

1 : Herbert John Bennett
2 : Samuel Herbert Dougal

Baron Goddard of Albourne - Lord Chief Justice - 1946-58

Born 1877 -

Notable Trials

1 : Nurse Dorothea Waddingham
2 : William Teasdale
3 : Thomas John Ley & Lawrence John Smith (Chalkpit Murder)

Sir William Grantham - Judge

Born 1835 - 1911

Notable Trials

1 : George Chapman

Sir Edward Marshall Hall - Kings Council

Born 1858 - 1927

Notable Trials

1 : Herbert John Bennett
2 : Frederick Rothwell Holt
3 : Edward Lawrence
4 : Fahmy, Marguerite Laurent
5 : Henry Seddon
6 : Loch Ah Tam
7 : Jeannie Baxter
8: Alfonso Smith
9 : George Joseph Smith
10: Jean Pierre Vaquier
11 : Harold Greenwood

Sir Hugh Imbert Perriam Hallett - Judge

Born 1886 -

Notable Trials

1 : Geraghty, Christopher James & Rolt, Terence Peter & Jenkins, Charlie Henry
2 : George Russell

Sir Patrick Hastings - Kings Council

Born 1880 - 1952

Notable Trials

1 : Jean Pierre Vaquier
2 : John Williams
3 : Mrs Elvira Barney
4 : Cienski, Ludomir

Sir Edward Anthony Hawke - Judge

Born 1896 -

Notable Trials

1 : Neville George Clevely Heath
2 : Arthur Robert Boyce
3 : Thomas John Ley & Lawrence John Smith (Chalkpit Murder)
4 : Geraghty, Christopher James & Rolt, Terence Peter & Jenkins, Charlie Henry
5 : Donald George Thomas

Sir John Anthony Hawke - Judge

Born 1869 - 1941

Notable Trials

1 : James Thomas Collins

Maurice Healy - Kings Council

Born 1887 - 1943

Notable Trials

1 : Frederick Nodder
2 : Leslie George Stone

Rose Heilbron - Queens Council

Born 1914 -

Notable Trials

1 : George Kelly

Lord Chief Justice Viscount Hewart of Bury - Judge

Born 1870 - 1943

Notable Trials

1 : George Leslie Stone
2 : Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford
3 : Frederick Rothwell Holt

Sir Malcolm Hilbery - Judge

Born 1883 -

Notable Trials

1 : James Camb
2 : Donald George Thomas

Sir Thomas Gordon Horridge - Judge

Born 1857 - 1938

Notable Trials

1 : Ronald Light
2 : Mrs Pace

Charles Francis Vachell - Kings Council

Born 1854 - 1935

Notable Trials

1 : Herbert Rowse Armstrong

Sir Robert Samuel Wright - Judge

Born 1839 - 1904
Notable Trials
1 : Samuel Herbert Dougal

Lord Chief Justice Viscount Alverstone - Judge

Name - Richard Everard Webster
Born 1842 - 1915
Notable Trials
1 : Herbert John Bennett
2 : Horace George Rayner
3 : Madar Lal Dhingra
4 : Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen

Joshua David Casswell - Queens Council

Born

Notable Trials

1 : Charlotte Bryant
2 : Neville George Clevely Heath
3 : Elizabeth Jones - Jones And Hulten
4 : James Camb
5 : Reginald Woolmington

Sir Ernest Bruce Charles - Judge

Born 1871 - 1950

Notable Trials

1 : Mrs Ethel Major
2 : Frederick Field - Second Trial
3 : Jones and Hulten
4 : Leonard Holmes

Lord Norman Birkett - Judge

Born 1883 -

Notable Trials

1 : Dr Buck Ruxton
2 : Alfred Arthur Rouse
3 : Frederick Nodder
4 : Mrs Sarah Ann Hearn
5 : Mrs Ethel Major
6 : Mrs Beatrice Pace

Sir Archibald Bodkin - Director of Public Prosecutions

Born 1862 - 1957

Notable Trials

1 : George Joseph Smith - Brides In The Bath
2 : George Chapman
3 : Arthur Devereux
4 : John Starchfield
5 : Madar Lal Dhingra
6 : Annie Walters And Amelia Sach - The Baby Farmers

Sir Thomas Townsend Bucknill - Judge

Born 1845 - 1915

Notable Trials

1 : The Seddons

Lord Atkin - Judge

Name : Richard Atkin
Born 1867 - 1944
Notable Trials
1 : John Starchfield
2 : David Greenwood

Sir Cyril Atkinson - Judge

Born 1874 -

Notable Trials

1 : Thomas Joseph Davidson
2 : Udham Singh

Sir Horace Edmund Avory - Judge

Born 1851 - 1935

Notable Trials

1 : Edith Bingham
2 : Edward Hopwood
3 : Jean Pierre Vaquier
4 : Alfonso Smith
5 : Browne And Kennedy
6 : Frederick Stewart

Raymond G Callaghan - Judge

Born

Notable Trials

1 : Dr Geza de Kaplany

Gerald Austin Gardiner - Lord Chancellor

Born 1900 - 1990

Notable Trials
None Recorded 

Bernard John Seymour Coleridge - Judge

Born - 1851 - 1927
Notable Trials
1 : John Alexander Dickman - The Railway Murderer

Sir Travers Humphreys - Judge

Born 1867 - 1956

Notable Trials

1 : Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen
2 : Wallace Benton
3 : The Seddons
4 : Elvira Barney
5 : George Joseph Smith
6 : Ernest Brown
7 : Lieutenant Douglas Malcolm
8 : John George Haigh
9 : Lieutenant Colonel Rutherford
10 : Ludomir Cienski
11 : Chung Yo Miao
12: Theodosios Petrou

Patrick Devlin Baron of West Wick - Judge

Born - 1905 -

Notable Trials

None Recorded 

Mr Justice Boreham - Judge

Born

Notable Trials

1 : Bryn Masterman

Laurence C Gram - Judge

Born

Notable Trials

1 : Jeffrey Dahmer (Milwaukee Cannibal)

John Graham Trapnell - Judge

Born 1876 - 1949

Notable Trials

1 : William Walter Burton
2 : Reginald Woolmington
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