Sir John Otway John Charlesworth William Ainslie Frank Ridley Sir Hilary Scott H Montgomery Hyde c. 1630 1824-33 1842-1848 Lupton House 1911-15 School House 1919-24 Powell House 1921-25 The Sedbergh School Trained to be a lawyer at Cambridge 1636. An ardent Royalist involved in A colliery owner and MP for Wakefield 1857 and Conservative politician, , One of the founders of the Marxian League in President of the Law Society Barrister, Ulster Unionist MP and author. Joined the British Army Intelligence the activities to bring Charles II to the throne, Charles appointed him 1859. Defeated by his Liberal opponent, William ironmaster and stockbroker. MP for 1930, he then joined the Independent Labour 1966-67. Corps in 1939 and was commissioned into MI6. Lost his seat in the House of Politics and Law Timeline Vice-Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Chancellor of the Leatham, at the 1859 general election both he and North Lonsdale Party writing regularly in their paper. From Commons in 1959 as a result of campaigning for County of Durham. Knighted in 1673 or 74. Died in 1693 and buried in Leatham were subsequently found to have conducted 1885-92. 1925 to 1964, he spoke every week at Speakers’ homosexual law reform. In 1972 wrote the first history of “Many Sedberghians have made enormous contributions to public life St Andrew’s Church, Sedbergh. extensive bribery during the campaign. Corner in London’s Hyde Park. homosexuality in & Ireland, ‘The Other Love’. and to the communities and constituencies which they have served. Lord Bingham is widely regarded as the greatest of the modern era. He, in particular, and countless other Sedberghians, only a few of whom can be featured in this timeline have had, and in some cases Gerrard Lowther John Lowther, 1st Viscount of Lonsdale, The Right Honourable Sir Alan Chambre Edward Eyre Sir John Willison, TD Kt OBE QPM Charles Peat Sir William Wavell Wakefield, Philip Mason, OBE CIE Viscount Bracken of 1550-1560 2nd Baronet, PC FRS c. 1746 1829-30 Sedgwick House 1898-1902 Sedgwick House 1905-10 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal Lupton House 1919-24 Christchurch (Brendan) continue to have, a significant impact on the administration of An eminent Counsel and Bencher of c. 1668-70 In 1767 he was called to the bar and went A land explorer of the Australian continent Sir Francis Sharp Powell, 1st Baronet Joined City of London Police in 1933 and A Conservative politician, accountant and School House 1912-16 Had a distinguished career in School House 1920 and/or on the legal profession and on society at large.” Lincoln’s Inn and High Sherriff of Twice MP for Westmorland between 1677 into the northern circuit. Elected to the and colonial administrator. 1848-1853, he 1843-46 served with RNVR 1943-46. Chief cricketer. In 1931 he was elected as MP for A Conservative politician, rugby the Civil Service in India until Working closely with Cumberland in 1592. The Lowther bench of Gray’s Inn in served as Lieutenant-Governor of New Constable of Berwick, Roxburgh & Selkirk, Darlington. During WW2 he served as Independence in 1947. His Honour Judge John Walford and 1696. In 1688 he was serviceable in A Conservative politician who sat in the union player for Harlequins and Churchill, he was made MP family would appear to have been securing Cumberland and Westmorland for 1781 and in 1783 filled Munster Province in New Zealand. From House of Commons between 1863 and Worcestershire Constabulary and West Principal Private Secretary to PM Winston and President of the Rugby Well-known as an author of a for Paddington in 1929, a supporters of Mary Queen of Scots. King William III and was appointed to the the annual office of 1854 he was Governor of several Caribbean 1910. He was one of Sedbergh School’s Mercia Constabulary. Appointed a Deputy Churchill. 1945, he served as Parliamentary Football Union. In 1935 he became great many books about India post he held for 16 years. In 1550’s 1910’s 1960’s Involved in various plots in Elizabeth I’s Privy Council in 1689. In 1690 he was first treasurer. 1796 he was island colonies. He was a controversial greatest benefactors and was the Lieutenant for Worcestershire. Received the Secretary to the Minister of National Conservative MP for Swindon. At and also for his pioneering 1940 became Parliamentary Helsby, Baron Helsby (Laurence), GCB KBE reign including “The Rising in the North” Lord of the Treasury and was appointed of Governor of Jamaica when the Morant Bay Chairman of Governors 1874-1914. QPM in 1968; knighted in 1970; Knight of Insurance. Played the 1945 general election, he moved work in promoting the study of Private Secretary to Churchill and in 1941 was 1922-26 1600’s 1920’s 1970’s and one led by the Duke of Norfolk with from 1699 until Lancaster. Worked at the Rebellion took place – a the Order of St John in 1973. first-class cricket for to St Marylebone. Knighted in 1944 racial and minority problems made Minister of Information, a post he held Joined the Civil Service in 1946. In 1963, he his brother, Richard. They managed to his death in 1700. court of common pleas major turning point in Oxford University and and in 1963 was raised to the as the founding director of the until the end of the Second World War. After was made joint Permanent Secretary to the 1700’s 1930’s 1980’s extricate themselves and survived. 1800-15. Jamaica’s history. Middlesex. peerage as Baron Wakefield of Institute of Race Relations. WW2 he was made First Lord of the Admiralty. Treasury and Head of the Home Civil Kendal. A generous benefactor to the School and was Service. Made a Knight Commander of the 1940’s 1990’s Chairman of Governors 1951-58. Order of the British Empire in 1955; awarded 1800’s Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in 1963; made a life peer in 1968. 1900’s 1950’s 2000’s Bill Carritt Sir Robert Rhodes James Lupton House 1922-27 Lord Bingham of Cornhill (Tom), KG PC QC James MacColl Lupton House 1946-52 Sir Russell Fairgrieve, CBE TD Sir Hugh Cortazzi, GCMG MA BA Communist, lecturer and poet. Air-lifted home from Winder House 1947-52 Sedgwick House 1922-27 Historian and Conservative MP. 1955-64, worked School House 1937-42 Sedgwick House 1936-41 WW2 to stand as Westminster Abbey Communist Judge and jurist. He served in the highest Air Vice-Marshal Peter Furniss, DFC Glencairn Balfour Paul, CMG Sir John Robertson Appointed a in 1938. in the Clerk’s Department of the House of The Honourable Sir Michael Sachs, KSS Parliamentary Under-Secretary of Diplomat, businessman, academic, author and The Honourable Lord Grieve (Bertie) VRD candidate in the 1945 general election and was judicial offices of the UK as Master of the School House 1933-37 Hart House 1931-36 Dunn Crichton Mayor of Paddington 1947-49. At the 1950 Commons. 1976, became a Conservative MP for Sedgwick House 1945-50 State for 1979-81 and a Japanologist. Left the RAF in 1947 and joined Winder House 1931-35 elected to Westminster council. Rolls, Lord and as Senior and senior Royal Air Force After WW2 he served in the Winder House 1926-31 general election he was elected MP for Cambridge, a seat until his retirement in 1992. In 1993 he was the first solicitor to be appointed Sir Christopher Hewetson, TD MA DL Member of the Council of Europe. the Foreign Office. 1975 he was appointed In 1964 he was appointed Principal 1946, he was one of five Law Lord before his retirement when he officer. He served as Director of Legal Political Service as a District Recorder of Manchester; Widnes and held the seat until his death in Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Foreign as a High Court judge and assigned to the Lupton House 1943-48 Chairman of the Conservative Party in Deputy Under-Secretary of State. 1980, of Renfrew and Argyll. A judge of the Communists tried at the Old focused on his work as a teacher and Services for the RAF and was Head of Commissioner, before joining the 1967 appointed one of the 1971. 1964-69 he was Parliamentary Office. Knighted in 1991. Queen’s Bench Division, receiving a knighthood. President Liverpool Law Society in Scotland 1975-80. appointed as Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Courts of of Guernsey and Jersey Bailey for leading a campaign The Sedbergh Bench lecturer in human rights laws. 1525 the RAF Legal Branch from Diplomatic Service in 1955. Appointed of Her Majesty’s Secretary to the Minister for Housing and Also became an honorary bencher at the Middle 1976, President National Law Society Appointed a CBE in Japan where he served until 1984 and was 1971-72. In 1972 he became a judge of which put homeless families into From left to right: D.R. Wood, R.P. Lowden, Society President 1978-1982. Ambassador to in 1969, Ambassador . Local Government. Temple and an honorary member of the Law in 1983. Became Knight Bachelor in 1974 and knighted in appointed GCMG (Knight Grand Cross of the Supreme Courts of Scotland. He was empty luxury flats. Until the T.D.T. Hodson, J. de G. Walford, T. Hewitt 2010-12. to in 1972 and Ambassador to Society in 1993. Received an honorary doctorate 1984. Appointed High Sheriff of 1981. President of the the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael 1975-77. Awarded The Order of the who prosecuted the last man 1960s, he worked as a of law from Manchester University in 1994. Merseyside in 1998. OS Club 1993-96. and St George). St Michael and St George in 1968. to be hanged in Scotland. Communist Party full-timer.

Sir Giles Shaw The Right Honourable Lord His Honour Judge William Wickham, BCL The Right Honourable McConnell of Lisburn, Lord Shaw of Northstead (Michael), JP DL Sir Michael Hanley, KCB Norman Openshaw Edmund Sharpe Sir Maurice Dorman, GCMG GCVO Lupton House 1945-50 Waddington (David), GCVO PC QC DL Powell House 1940-44 Baron McConnell Lord (Brian) Sedgwick House 1934-38 Sedgwick House 1931-37 Hart House 1927-32 1927-29 School House 1926-30 His Honour Judge MP for Pudsey 1974 to 1997. Held a number of ministerial Winder House 1944-47 Worked for Her Majesty’s Overseas Civil Winder House 1936-41 Conservative politician who served as an MP Served as an officer of the Royal Artillery Liberal MP for Bolton. An architect, architectural The representative of the British Monarchy Brian Duckworth, DL MA posts under Thatcher: Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Conservative MP who held a Service 1953-63. Practised at the Bar in First elected to Stormont at the Northern from 1960-64 and from 1966-92. Also during WW2. Became the Assistant Military historian, railway engineer, and in Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Sierra Lupton House 1948-52 N. Ireland Office, Department of Environment and variety of government roles under Liverpool 1963-73. A Circuit Judge since Ireland general election in 1953. 1962, he was served as a Member of the European Attaché in Budapest in 1946. Joined the sanitary reformer. His Leone and Malta. He was a Deputy In 1983 he was appointed to Department of Energy; Minister of State for Margaret Thatcher including 1973 and also Senior Circuit Judge and appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Parliament 1974-79. Received a Knighthood Security Service MI5 in 1948; 1971, he architectural practice, Sharpe Lieutenant for Wiltshire and a Knight the Circuit Bench of and Department of Trade & Industry. Chairman of . Made a life peer in 1990 and held several Recorder for Liverpool 1992-97. Ministry of Finance and became Minister of in 1982. Created a life peer in 1994. 1525 became the Deputy Director General; 1972 and Paley, (by then, Austin and Grand Cross of the Maltese Order of Merit. and when he retired in 2004 Governors at Sedbergh School 1992 to 1997. positions in the House of Lords including Leader of the Home Affairs in 1964. President of the Society President 2002-05. promoted to Director General. Paley) designed the School he was the longest serving House. Also served as Governor of Bermuda. European Movement in Northern Ireland boarding houses and chapel. Circuit Judge in the country. 1992-95. Granted a life peerage in 1995. An elected town councillor for Served on the Lancashire Lancaster and served as mayor in 1848–49. Concerned about the town’s poor water supply and Committee, the Lord Haskel of Higher His Honour Judge Lawrence sanitation, he championed the construction of new Lord Lieutenant’s Advisory Broughton (Simon) John Rink Committee on the Magistracy sewers and a waterworks. Winder House 1948-52 Lupton House Schroeder Laura Priestley and was appointed a Deputy School House 1963-68 Labour politician. 1960-65 Mike Redmayne Lupton House 2001-03 Lieutenant of Lancashire Lord Bruce-Lockhart Appointed a Deputy District Judge in Created a life peer in Spent 35 years with His Honour Judge David Sedgwick House 1980-85 James Ward, OBE Solicitor. One of the first girls to attend Sedbergh in 1995. 1989 and a District Judge in 1992. The Right Honourable the House of Lords in Andrew Robertson, OBE of The Weald (Sandy), KT OBE magic circle law Wood Law professor. Pioneer in criminal Evans House 1985-91 School when it became co-educational in 2001. School House 1956-60 Sir Richard McCombe, The Right Honourable Sir 1993, taking the title Evans House 1956-61 Anthony Watson, QC firm Allen & Sedgwick House 1962-66 His Honour Judge Her Honour Judge A Louise Bancroft justice scholarship whose research into Studied piano and conducting at Graduated in History at the University of Cambridge. Leader of Kent County Overy; the last 10 His Honour Judge John FRCS (Hon) Casterton School 1971-1979. David Edward, KCMG PC QC FRSE Baron Haskel of A former solicitor, he was Sedgwick House 1958-63 Appointed an Assistant the use of forensic started to Birmingham Conservatoire. 1993-2007 Now a solicitor specialising in Wills, Tax Planning, Council 1997-2005. In 2004 he Michael Grieve, QC Powell House 1966-70 Sedgwick House 1948-53 Higher Broughton in Chairman of the NHS Greater Called to the Bar Inner years as Managing Walford Recorder in 1984, Recorder Called to the Bar by Inner Temple in appear once the courts began to admit Special Constable in West Midlands Powers of Attorney and the Administration of Estates. became Chairman of the Local Winder House 1964-68 In 1998 he was appointed as a Deputy High Appointed Queen’s Counsel in the County of Greater Glasgow and Clyde 2007-15. Temple 1968. He has Partner and 2 years seconded as Evans House 1961-66 in 1989 and Circuit Judge 1985. 1985-2013 Barrister. 2002 The Honorable Sir Mark Turner DNA analysis in criminal . In 2002 Police. 1999-2008 he practised at the Government Association. Made Appointed a QC and Court Judge. 1996-2001, Attorney General 1974. 1992-2004, Judge of the Manchester. Awarded an OBE in 1994. acted in many of the Legal Director of British Appointed an Assistant 1995. Served as President of Sir Roger Gifford Recorder (Northern Circuit). 2013 School House 1972-77 he was one of the founding editors of independent Bar. 2008, joined CPS Kate Baron a Knight Bachelor in 2002, an Assistant Recorder to the Duchy of Lancaster. 2001, appointed European Court of Justice. Chairman of the Sedbergh leading Intellectual Aerospace. Post- retirement, Recorder in 1985, a Recorder the Council of Circuit Judges Evans House 1968-72 appointed Circuit Judge based at In 1998 he was appointed a the leading journal for research in law South West as a Crown Advocate. Lupton House 2004-06 having previously been in 1998. Appointed a to the High Court, Queen’s Bench Division. Awarded the Distinguished School Foundation 2001-8, Property cases of the 2003-9 non-executive director of in 1989 and a Circuit Judge in in 2008 (and retired in 2013). A London banker and the 685th Lord Mayor Liverpool Civil & Family Court. 2015 Queen’s Counsel. Became a and statistics ‘Law, Probability and Risk’. Awarded OBE in 2015 for services to Solicitor. Studied law at appointed OBE. Elevated to the Recorder in 2000. 2004-7, served as Presiding Judge on the Cross, first class, Order of St. School Governor 2000-8, Vice last 40 years. Joined Eversheds. School Foundation 1993. He was appointed of London 2012 to 2013. Knighted in the 2014 elected Judicial Bencher of Inner Recorder in 2000. Justice of the Taught at LSE from 1999 until his Law and Order in the South West and Manchester 2007-10, peerage in 2006 as Baron Northern Circuit. 2012, appointed as a Raymond of Peñafort (Spain) President of the Foundation Hogarth Chambers Trustee 2007-13; School Governor Chancellor for the Diocese of New Year Honours list. Sedbergh School Temple. Governor of Casterton School High Court and assigned to the death in 2015. for service to the community. completed her LPC 2011, Bruce-Lockhart, of The Weald Lord Justice of Appeal. Sedbergh School in 1979; appointed a Knight from 2014 and 1525 Society in 2013. and chair of the Executive Bradford from 1999-2014. Foundation Vice President from 2014. 2007-13. Governor of Sedbergh School Queen’s Bench Division, 2013. now an Associate at a firm in in the County of Kent. Governor 2002-13. Commander of the Order of President from 2013. Committee 2008-16. President of the OS Club 2015. and Foundation Trustee since 2013. Presiding judge Northern circuit. Dubai. St Michael and St George in 2004; sworn of the Privy Council in 2005; appointed as an Officer of the Legion of Geoffrey William (Bill) Meikle, TD DL LLB His Honour Judge David Michael Pattison, CBE His Honour Judge Richard Peter Birkett, QC His Honour Judge Tim Hewitt His Honour Judge Robert Warnock Lord Lupton of Lovington The Right Honourable Stephen O’Brien Christopher Boyle, QC The Right Honorable Sir Richard Aikens Karen Bruce Lockhart Honour and Chevalier de School House 1950-55 Hodson, LLB Winder House 1960-64 Lowden Winder House 1961-66 Lupton House 1964-68 Sedgwick House 1966-70 (James), CBE Hart House 1970-75 Sedgwick House 1981-88 1999, made a Justice of the High Court Scottish Advocate. Governor of l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Retired solicitor, partner 1962-97 in the largest firm Evans House 1956-60 Diplomat and Evans House 1961-66 Called 1972; Inner Temple. Recorder of Became a recorder, or part-time Junior of the Northern Circuit 1981. Powell House 1968-72 Qualified as a solicitor in 1983; practised at Called to the Bar in 1994 and was appointed Queen’s Bench Division and nominated as Sedbergh School 2005-13. in 2012. in the NE, appointed Under Sheriff for Newcastle Circuit Judge, Manchester 1987-96. Senior Alan Craze administrator, Private Resident judge at Durham the 1989; master of the judge, in 1996. He was appointed a Asst. Recorder 1993, Recorder 1997. Qualified as a solicitor in Freshfields, City of London. Industrialist Queen’s Counsel in 2013. He specialises in judge of the Commercial and Admiralty Foundation Trustee 2007-13. upon Tyne 17 times, Clerk to the Lieutenancy for Circuit Judge and Hon. Recorder of Powell House 1959-64 Secretary to successive Crown Court 2001-9. He Bench (Inner Temple) 1996; deemster of judge in 2000 and sat on Circuit Judge 2003 now at Liverpool 1997. Co-founded investment 1988-99. Served as MP (Conservative) for planning, environmental, transport and Courts. Presiding Judge of the South East Tyne and Wear for 5 years, Hon. Treasurer of the Newcastle upon Tyne 1997-2010. Bencher, Former solicitor who Prime Ministers 1979-82. was judicial recorder at the High Court (Isle of Man) 1999; the North-East Circuit, in Crown Court. Snr. Judge S.B.A. bankers Greenhill London in 1998 and Eddisbury 1999-2015. Minister for International infrastructure, compulsory purchase and Circuit 2001-4. Judge in charge of the Newcastle upon Tyne Law Society from 1997, Inner Temple. Deputy, then Chancellor of has been Her Majesty’s Sedbergh School Durham 2005-10. Died in approved to sit as a recorder at the Central Newcastle, Durham and Cyprus 2012. is Chairman of Greenhill Europe. Development. Appointed Under-Secretary- ecclesiastical law. He is a member of Planning Commercial Court from 2005-6. Lord Deputy Lieutenant for Tyne and Wear for 15 years the Diocese of Newcastle 2001-12. Judicial Senior Coroner for the Foundation Trustee 2012. Criminal Court 2000; member of the Teesside Crown Courts Co-treasurer of the Conservative Party. General for Humanitarian Affairs & Emergency & Environmental Bar Association (PEBA) and Justice of Appeal in 2008-15. Sedbergh (now retired), Deputy Chairman for almost 20 years Member of the Board. An Assistant County of East Sussex 2007-14. General Council of the Bar 1999-2001; until his death in 2007. Appointed as a life peer in 2015. Relief Coordinator, United Nations 2015. Privy the Compulsory Purchase Association (CPA). School Governor 1988-97. of the NE Rail Users Consultative Committee. Surveillance Commissioner 2013-15. since 1998. leader of the Northern Circuit 1999-2001. Counsellor 2013.