John Hamilton, 1st Viscount Sumner
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The Right Honourable The Viscount Sumner GCB PC KC |
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Contemporary photograph of Lord Sumner by Walter Thomas
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| Born |
3 February 1859 Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Lancashire |
| Died | 24 May 1934 (aged 75) |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse(s) | Maude Margaret Todd |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
John Andrew Hamilton, 1st Viscount Sumner GCB PC KC (3 February 1859 – 24 May 1934), was a British lawyer and judge. He was appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice (King's Bench Division) in 1909, a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1912 and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in 1913. Created a life peer as Baron Sumner in 1913, he was further honoured when he was granted a hereditary peerage as Viscount Sumner in 1927.
Hamilton was born in Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Lancashire, the second son of Andrew Hamilton, an iron merchant of Manchester, and his wife, Francis, daughter of Joseph Sumner. Hamilton was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1883, he was called to the bar, Inner Temple. Hamilton was a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, for seven years from 1892 and was nominated an honorary fellow in 1909. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Edinburgh in 1913 and by the University of Manchester in 1919. One year later, Hamilton obtained also an Honorary Doctorate of Civil Law by the University of Oxford.
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