John Gorell Barnes, 1st Baron Gorell
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The Right Honourable The Lord Gorell PC |
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| Judge of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice | |
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In office 1892–1905 |
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| Born | May 16, 1848 |
| Died | April 22, 1913 (aged 64) |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Barnes nee Mitchell |
| Children | Henry Gorell Barnes |
| Alma mater | Peterhouse, Cambridge |
John Gorell Barnes, 1st Baron Gorell PC (16 May 1848 – 22 April 1913), was a British lawyer and judge.
Gorell was the eldest son of Henry Barnes, a shipowner of Liverpool, and was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge. where he took his degree in 1868. He began work as a solicitor, but was called to the Bar in 1876 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1888. He was well known as an expert in Admiralty cases, and in 1892 was made a Judge of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice, and its president from 1905 (on the retirement of Sir Francis Jeune (Lord St. Helier)) until 1909. He was admitted to the Privy Council in 1905 and in 1909 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Gorell, of Brampton in the County of Derby. He died in April 1913, aged 64, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Henry Gorell Barnes.
Lord Gorell married Mary, daughter of Thomas Mitchell, in 1881.
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