Mark Romer, Baron Romer
Mark Lemon Romer, Baron Romer, PC (9 August 1866 – 19 August 1944) was a British judge.
Romer was born in Crawley, Sussex, the second son of Sir Robert Romer, later a Lord Justice of Appeal. He was educated at Rugby and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he read Mathematics. He was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1890. He practiced at the Chancery bar and was made a Queen's Counsel in 1906.
Romer appointed as a judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court in 1922, in succession to Sir Arthur Frederick Peterson, and received the customary knighthood the same year.
Invested to the Privy Council in 1929, he was Lord Justice of Appeal from 1929 to 1938. On 5 January 1938, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was made additionally a life peer with the title Baron Romer, of New Romney in the County of Kent.
Both Lord Romer's father, Sir Robert Romer (1840-1918), and his son, Sir Charles Romer (1897-1969), were also judges, serving as Lords Justices of Appeal in 1899-1906 and 1951-1960 respectively. All three had served in the Chancery Division of the High Court.
His grandfather was Mark Lemon, founding editor of Punch magazine. He married Anne Wilmot Ritchie, daughter of Charles Thomson Ritchie.
List of cases
- Re City Equitable Fire Insurance Co [1925] Ch 407
- France v James Coombes & Co [1928] 2 KB 81
- Cotter v National Union of Seamen [1929] 2 Ch 58
- Kirby v Wilkins [1929] Ch 444
- Re Thompson [1934] Ch 342
- Knightsbridge Estates Trust Ltd v Byrne [1940] AC 613
- Southern Foundries (1926) Ltd v Shirlaw [1940] AC 701
- Nokes v Doncaster Amalgamated Collieries Ltd [1940] AC 1014
- Re Gardner (No.2) [1923] 2 Ch 230
- List of Judicial Committee of the Privy Council cases originating in Canada, 1930–1939
- List of Judicial Committee of the Privy Council cases originating in Canada, 1940–1949
References
External links
- http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/index1769.htm
- "Romer, Mark Lemon (RMR884ML)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.