Atkin, James Richard Atkin, Baron, 1867-1944

found: Lord Atkin, 1999:p. 1 (James Richard Atkin; b. Nov. 28, 1867) p. 22 (d. June 25, 1944)

found: Atkin's encyclopædia of court forms in civil proceedings. Directory of costs and fees, 2013.

found: Wikipedia, viewed 28 May 2014(James Atkin, Baron Atkin; James Richard Atkin, Baron Atkin; 28 November 1867-25 June 1944; lawyer and judge of Australian-Welsh origin, who practised in England and Wales; always thought of himself as a Welshman; born in Brisbane; in 1871, his mother brought him and his siblings back to her own mother's house, "Pantlludw" on the River Dovey in Wales; attended Magdalen College, Oxford; called to the bar by Gray's Inn in 1891; eventually established a practice in commercial law; Atkin took silk in 1906; became a judge of the King's Bench division of the High Court in 1913, then a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1919; from 1928 until his death he was a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary under the title Baron Atkin, of Aberdovey, in the County of Merioneth; in 1893, he married Lucy Elizabeth (Lizzie) Hemmant (1867-1939), also born in Brisbane; he died in Aberdyfi)