Courtenay Ilbert
| Sir Courtenay Ilbert | |
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| Born |
June 12, 1841 Kingsbridge, Devon, England |
| Died | May 14, 1924 (aged 82) Penn, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Lawyer, Civil servant |
| Known for | Ilbert Bill Legislative Methods and Forms |
| Relatives |
Lettice Fisher (daughter) Mary Bennett (grand-daughter) |
Lettice Fisher (daughter)
Sir Courtenay Peregrine Ilbert GCB KCSI CIE (12 June 1841 – 14 May 1924) was a distinguished British lawyer and civil servant who served as legal adviser to the Viceroy of India's Council for many years until his eventual return from India to England. His later career included appointments as the Parliamentary Counsel to the British Treasury and as Clerk of the House of Commons from 1902 to 1921.
Ilbert was born at Kingsbridge to Reverend Peregrine Arthur Ilbert and Rose Anne (daughter of George Welsh Owen) on 12 June 1841. He was educated at Marlborough College (1852–60) and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was Hertford, Ireland, Craven, and Eldon law scholar. He graduated with first class honours in Literae Humaniores and was elected a fellow of Balliol in 1864.
Ilbert married Jessie, daughter of Reverend Charles Bradley and niece of George Bradley, former headmaster of Marlborough College in 1874. They had five daughters, the oldest, Lettice Fisher became the first to head the National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child. His fourth daughter Margaret Peregrina Ilbert (1882–1952) married Sir Arthur Cochrane of the College of Arms.
Ilbert was an outdoorsman in his youth and he climbed in the Chamonix (1871 with Leslie Stephen and M. Loppe) the Hekla in Iceland and the Vignemale in the Pyrenees in 1872-73 with James Bryce. When Ilbert lived in Simla, at Chapslee house, he founded a Simla Natural History Society around 1885 but the organization dissolved when he left Simla in 1886.
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