John Lort-Williams

Sir John Rolleston Lort-Williams[1] (14 September 1881 – 9 June 1966) was a Judge and MP for Rotherhithe between the general elections of 1918 and 1923.[2][3]

Lort-Williams was born in Walsall, the only son of Charles William Williams, a local solicitor.[4] He stood for election for the Conservative Party at the Pembrokeshire during the United Kingdom general election, 1906 and the Pembrokeshire by-election, 1908, but lost, first to John Wynford Philipps and then to Walter Roch.[5]

From 1907-10 he represented Tower Hamlets, Limehouse on the London County Council as a Municipal Reform Party councillor.[6] [7] In 1918 he was elected to parliament at Rotherhithe.

After not being reelected in 1923, Lort-Williams became Recorder of Walsall in 1924.[2] In 1927 he was appointed as a Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Calcutta, in succession to William Ewart Greaves.[2][4] In 1936, while being Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, Lort-Williams was styled as Knight Bachelor.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "KNIGHTHOOD FOR A CHELTONIAN". Cheltenham Chronicle. 27 June 1936. Retrieved 1 February 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
  2. 1 2 3 "Society and Personal". Aberdeen Journal. 13 December 1927. Retrieved 1 February 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
  3. ↑ THE HOUSE OF COMMONS CONSTITUENCIES BEGINNING WITH "R", leighrayment.com; accessed 9 April 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Mr. Lort-Williams". Gloucestershire Chronicle. 16 December 1927. Retrieved 1 February 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
  5. ↑ "Pembroke Poll". Gloucestershire Echo. 17 July 1908. Retrieved 4 February 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
  6. ↑ "Obituary: Sir John Lort-Williams". The Times. 13 June 1966. p. 12.
  7. ↑ W Eric Jackson (1965). Achievement. A Short History of the London County Council. Longmans. p. 271.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Hubert Carr-Gomm		 Member of Parliament for Rotherhithe
1918 – 1923 		Succeeded by
Sir Benjamin Smith
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