Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed

Francis Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed PC, KC (8 August 1899 - 3 October 1966) was British judge who served as Master of the Rolls, and subsequently became a Law Lord.^[1]

Background and education

Evershed was the son of Frank Evershed, a brewer and sportsman, and his wife Florence Helen, daughter of Thomas Lowe. He was educated at Clifton College and Oxford University. During the First World War he was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. In 1923, he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn and became a barrister.^[2]

Legal and judicial career

Evershed was made a KC in 1933 and a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn in 1938. He became a High Court Judge in 1944 when he was knighted, and Lord Justice of Appeal in 1947 when he was also made a Privy Counsellor. Between 1949 and 1962 he was Master of the Rolls and served as the UK Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague in 1950.^[2] He was raised to the peerage as Baron Evershed, of Stapenhill in the County of Stafford, on 20 January 1956.^[3]

Personal life

Lord Evershed married Cecily Elizabeth Joan, daughter of the Honourable Charles Alan Bennett, in 1928. The title became extinct on his death in October 1966, aged 67.^[2]

References

1. ODNB article by Nicholls of Birkenhead, Evershed, (Francis) Raymond, Baron Evershed (1899–1966), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 27 March 2008.
2. Francis Raymond Evershed, 1st and last Baron Evershed
3. The London Gazette: no. 40689. p. 419. 20 January 1956.