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and his 'agreeable personality.' The Inner Temple, with the help of a grant from a trust set up in Sir Joseph's memory, continues to award Sir Joseph
Priestley Scholarships to enable newly qualified barristers to pursue projects "that will widen their experience of the world outside the bar, and thereby enhance the skills that they can thereafter bring to their practice."
215:, Clerk of the Privy Council, as a man of 'agreeable manner and tactful.' Although the Minister of Health had no power under the Act to appoint a Chairman of the Council, he appointed Priestley to the position, 'since he was associated with neither the College nor the Central Committee and could therefore be regarded as impartial.'
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Despite this mark of professional expertise, it seems he suffered from a lack of confidence in himself as a senior counsel, which made him less successful than when he had practised as a junior. He gave evidence before the Royal
Commission on Divorce and Matrimonial Causes on 7 March 1910, and served
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stated that his death had broken 'a link with the generation of practitioners in the
Probate and Divorce Division at the end of the last and beginning of the present centuries, among whom he was for many years an outstanding figure.' It particularly referred both to his 'charming voice and manner'
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The
Committee was constituted in July 1924 to collect information and to take evidence as to the prevalence of sexual offences against young persons and to report upon the subject, indicating any direction in which in their opinion the law or its administration might be improved, Command Papers,
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In July 1921, the
Council announced it had framed, and the Minister of Health had approved, rules for the admission of nurses to an official register under the Act of 1919, and the register was opened. In the following months "lay" and "professional" members of the Council differed over the
608:
The committee was constituted in
November 1925 under the chairmanship of Sir W.H.N. Goschen, to consider and report on any scheme which may be submitted to them for special assistance from the Exchequer to Local Authorities in necessitous urban and quasi-urban areas, Command Papers,
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December 1928, he gave evidence before the Royal Commission on Police Powers and Procedure, during which he stated that he would 'strongly condemn the introduction of methods similar to those exercised in the French courts in the examination of the accused, and what are called
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wrote that, "To a charming voice and manner he added great care and industry in the preparation of his cases, and the fashionable silk brought in to champion the cause of the fashionable litigant could always feel safe when the spade work was in
Priestley's hands."
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Having successfully sat the
Council of Legal Education's General Examination, held in Lincoln's Inn Hall in March 1888, he resigned his commission in the Volunteer Force with effect from 19 May 1888, and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple on 13 June 1888.
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Priestley's predecessor, Sir Edmund
Barnard, died at a meeting of the Council held in London on 27 January 1930, despite the efforts of Sir Charles Longmore (the Clerk), Priestley (the vice-chairman), and the County Medical Officer, all of whom went to his aid,
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In the meanwhile, in November 1925, Priestley had also been appointed a member of the Government Committee on Schemes of Assistance to Necessitous Areas representing the County Councils Association. The committee reported to the Prime Minister in March 1926.
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appointment of the first Registrar, and whether nurses' qualifications should be entered in the register. The controversy became so severe that by the end of the year the majority of members of the Council – including Priestley – had resigned.
114:. On Middleton's death in 1891 a large share of his business was inherited by Priestley. He succeeded in building himself a lucrative career as a practitioner in the Probate and Divorce courts, and went the Wales and Chester
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When the committee reported to the Minister in December 1925, Priestley and two other members submitted a memorandum to the effect that they were unable to agree to the committee's recommendation to raise the
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on 30 July 1891 to Annette Maud Warner Price (the daughter of Ralph George Price, JP, a magistrate, merchant and manufacturer of Marshalls Park in Romford, and his wife, Annette Mary Warner. She was born in
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Having acted in 1910 as arbitrator in the industrial dispute between Messrs. Wm. Hollins & Co., Ltd., worsted spinners of Mansfield, and disaffected members of its workforce, he was appointed by the
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on 9 January 1886. He was struck off the strength of the Glamorganshire Artillery Volunteer Corps, and appointed to the 3rd Middlesex Artillery Volunteer Corps, with effect from 11 December 1886.
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Marriage registered in Romford Registration District in the third quarter of 1891. Birth registered in Brighton Registration District in the first quarter of 1870. Crisp, FA, ed.,
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Return setting forth the Statutory Provisions relating to the Constitution of Courts of Referees … (Insurance Act, National (Part II., Unemployment): Referees' Courts)
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on 9 June 1941. His funeral was held in St. Martin's Church, Preston near Hitchin on 12 June 1941. He left effects valued at £118 211. His obituary in
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Births registered in Bromley Registration District in the last quarter of 1893 and in Paddington Registration District in the first quarter of 1898.
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on 18 June 1906. He went on to serve as deputy-chairman and chairman (1924–1941) of the Hitchin Division of the Hertfordshire Quarter Sessions.
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in 1876, where he was a member of Preshute House. He left the school at the end of the Christmas term, 1878, and was admitted as a pensioner at
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441:, formerly President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court, was constituted in November 1909, Command Papers,
83:. He was commissioned and appointed as a Lieutenant in the 1st Glamorganshire Artillery Volunteer Corps, with effect from 19 July 1884.
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was asked to nominate a lawyer of standing to preside over the council's judicial sub-committee. Priestley was recommended by Sir
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He was appointed to the Royal Commission on Land Drainage in March 1927. In 1930 he was elected as Chairman of the Hertfordshire
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in 1912–1913. Many years later, in 1933, he gave evidence to the Business of Courts Committee. He was elected as a
751:(Tuesday, 14 January 1941), p. 1. Death registered in Watford Registration District in the first quarter of 1946.
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Report of the Royal Commission on Divorce and Matrimonial causes; Evidence, Vol. I (Marriages, &c: Divorce)
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to chair the Departmental Committee on Sexual Offences Against Young Persons, in succession to the late Sir
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of, and devilled for, C.A. Middleton, who for long had enjoyed one of the best junior practices in the
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Report of the Committee on schemes of assistance to necessitous areas (Necessitous Areas) (Cmd. 2645)
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Priestley received recognition for his services to county and country. Having been commissioned as a
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514:(Friday, 31 January 1941), p. 2. Priestley's services as chairman of the bench are referred to at
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36:(11 January 1862 – 9 June 1941) was an English barrister and magistrate, active in public life in
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on 19 July 1946. They had issue, two children: a son, Captain Douglas Ralph Overend Priestley,
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Sir Joseph Priestly, KC, Chairman of the County Council (1930–1939)
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