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, magistrate, 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 Great Britain & Ireland, ‘The Other Love’. and to the communities and constituencies which they have served. Lord Bingham is widely regarded as the greatest Judge 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 justice 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 England 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 recorder 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 Lord Privy Seal 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 Justice of the Peace 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 Scotland 1979-81 and a Japanologist. Left the RAF in 1947 and joined Winder House 1931-35 elected to Westminster council. Rolls, Lord Chief Justice and as Senior Solicitor 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 Sheriff Principal 1946, he was one of five Law Lord before his retirement when he officer. He served as Director of Legal Sudan 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 Appeal 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 Justices 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 Iraq in 1969, Ambassador High Court of Justice. 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 Jordan in 1972 and Ambassador to Society in 1993.