Reginald Acland
Sir Reginald Brodie Dyke Acland KC, JP (18 May 1856 – 18 February 1924)[1] was a British barrister and judge.
Background
He was the sixth son of Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, 1st Baronet, and his wife Sarah Cotton, eldest daughter of William Cotton.[2] His younger brother was Alfred Dyke Acland.[2] He was educated at Winchester College and then at University College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1878 and Master of Arts five year later.[3]
Career
In 1881, Acland was called to the bar by the Inner Temple and worked as barrister-at-law.[3] He became junior counsel to the Admiralty in 1897 and subsequently was appointed Judge Advocate of the Fleet in 1904.[4] Acland was appointed Recorder of Shrewsbury in November 1901,[5][6] a post he held for the next two years.[3] He then served as Recorder of Oxford until his death in 1924.[3]
He was nominated a King's Counsel in 1904 and acted as counsel for Great Britain at the North Sea Commission in Paris in the following year.[3] In 1913, he was elected a member of the Royal Commission for Legal Delay and became a Bencher.[3] A year later, he was created a Knight Bachelor.[7] Acland sat in the General Council of the Bar and was treasurer of the Barristers' Benevolent Association.[4] He was Justice of the Peace for Berkshire and chaired the London Hospital Saturday Fund.[4]
Family
On 12 August 1885, Acland married Helen Emma Fox, daughter of Reverend Thomas Fox, and had by her four children, two sons and two daughters.[1]
Works
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Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Prisoners of War". Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York.
References
- 1 2 "Sir Reginald Brodie Dyke Acland". The Peerage . Retrieved 16 December 2006. External link in
|work=(help) - 1 2 Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1895). Armorial families. Edinburgh: Grange Publishing Works. pp. 8–9.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Debrett, John (1922). Arthur G. M. Hesilrige, ed. Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage. London: Dean & Son Ltd. p. 375.
- 1 2 3 Who is Who 1914. London: Adam & Charles Black Ltd. 1912. p. 8.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27381. p. 8409. 29 November 1901.
- ↑ "New Recorder". The Times (36618). London. 21 November 1901. p. 9.
- ↑ Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companioage. J. Whitaker & Sons. 1923. p. 112.
| Legal offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Arthur Richard Jelf |
Recorder of Shrewsbury 1901–1903 |
Succeeded by John William St Lawrence Leslie |
| Preceded by Hon. Alfred Lyttelton |
Recorder of Oxford 1903–1924 |
Succeeded by The Lord Trevethin |
| Preceded by Alexander Stavely Hill |
Judge Advocate of the Fleet 1904 – 1924 |
Succeeded by Charles Murray Pitman |