Herbert Edmund-Davies, Baron Edmund-Davies
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Herbert Edmund Edmund-Davies, Baron Edmund-Davies PC (15 July 1906 – 26 December 1992) was a British judge.
Born at Mountain Ash in Mid Glamorgan, he was the third son of Morgan John Davies and Elizabeth Maud Edmunds. Edmund-Davies was educated at the Mountain Ash Grammar School, King's College, London and further Exeter College, Oxford, where he received the Vinerian Scholarship. Called to the Bar, Gray's Inn in 1929, he worked as examiner and lecturer at the London School of Economics in 1930 and 1931. During the Second World War, he served in the Army Officers' Emergency Reserve and in the Royal Welch Fusiliers.
From 1942 to 1944, he was Recorder of Merthyr Tydfil, of Swansea from 1944 to 1953 and of Cardiff from 1953 to 1958. Between 1953 and 1964, Edmund-Davies was chairman of the Denbighshire Quarter Sessions. He was knighted in 1958 and became High Court Judge, Queen's Bench Division, a post he held until 1966.
Invested to the Privy Council in 1966, he was Lord Justice of Appeal from 1966 to 1974. On 1 October 1974, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was confered a life peerage with the title Baron Edmund-Davies of Aberpennar in the County of Mid Glamorgan, for which he changed his surname. In 1981, he retired as Lord of Appeal. From 1974 to 1985, he was Pro-Chancellor of the University of Wales.
In 1935, he married Sarah Eurwen Williams-James.
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- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
- Archives Network Wales. Retrieved on January 13, 2007.
