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JUDGES AND LAWYERS

Babb, Peter
1962
Recorder of the Crown Court (1992- )

Banner, Charles
1998
Appointed QC at the early age of 38

Bush, Brian Drex
1941
Kt; Appointed County Court judge (1969); Judge of the Family Division of the High Court (1976-1989)

Cardinal, Martin
1971
Circuit Judge (2004-2016); Chancellor of the Diocese of Birmingham (2005-2011)

Carr, Norman A
1919
County Court judge in Worcestershire and Herefordshire (1955-1969)

Condé-Williams, Frederic
1864
District Judge in Jamaica 1876, Puisne judge in Natal 1881, Puisne Judge in Mauritius 1884; previously editor of the Birmingham Daily Gazette from 1869; on Paris staff of The Times in 1875.

Clifford, Philip
1986
QC, leading arbitration specialist

Cooke, Nick
1973
Judge, Central Criminal Court (2012-)

Davies, Alfred William Michael
1939
Kt; Judge of the Queens Bench Division of the High Court (1973-1991)

Davison, William Norris
1937
County Court judge (1971-)

Dobbs, A E
1933
Supreme Court Judge, Sierra Leone.

Donaldson, Alan Winton
1955
District Judge in the Midlands (1978-1996)

Ehrhardt, Albert F
c 1880
Attorney General of Fiji (1903-1914); Judge of East Africa Protectorate (1914-1920)

Finnemore, Donald L
1908
Kt; Judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court (1947-1964); school governor; President of the Baptist Union (1966).

Handford, Peter Robert
1965
Executive Officer and Director of Research, Law Reform Commission of Western Australia (1983-1998); Professor of Law, University of Western Australia (2004-2016)

Hickman, Neil
1968
District Judge, Milton Keynes (2000-2016)

Kaufman, Nick
1986
Former Prosecutor and now Defense Counsel, at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, The Hague

Laughland, Graham Franklyn Bruce
1950
QC (1977), defence counsel for Clive Ponting in the GCHQ trial; Circuit Judge (1989-2002).

Lee, Malcolm Kenneth
1961
QC; Recorder of the Crown Court (1980-1993); Circuit Judge and Designated Circuit Mercantile Judge in Birmingham (1993-1999).

Marcus, Philip
1967
Judge of the Jerusalem Family Court (1995-2012).

McCardie, Henry Alfred
1885
Kt, Judge of the Kings Bench Division of the High Court (1917-1933).

Pilley, Sidney F
1951
Chief Coroner, British Columbia, Canada.

Schiemann, Konrad H T
1955
Judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court (1985-), Lord Justice of Appeal, Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union (2004-2012).

Singer, Jan Peter
1963
Judge of the Family Division of the High Court (1993- ).

Sessions, John
1959
Naval officer and barrister; Recorder 1989; Circuit Judge 1992; last Judge Advocate of the Fleet 1995-2008 (office abolished 2008)

Tarleton, A M
1870s?
Queen's Advocate for the West Africa Settlement, later Acting Chief Justice and Chief Commissioner of Burma

Tedd, Rex H
1963
QC (1993), Leader of the Midland and Oxford Circuit; Half Blue for swimming, Oxford (1965)

Turner, Peter John
1953
President, Mental Health Tribunal

Wills, Alfred
c 1846
Judge of the Queens Bench Division of the High Court (1883-1904), presided over second criminal trial of Oscar Wilde; the first British Tourist to climb the Wetterhorn, in 1854; President of the Alpine Club, 1854-1856.

 


 

MEDICAL AND DENTAL PROFESSIONS

Baker, Alfred
FRCS; founder of the Sydenham Medical College

Ball, Laurence
1902
FRCS; Hon Physician to Queen's Hospital, Children's Hospital and Nerve Hospital, Birmingham and Joint Professor of Medicine, Birmingham University

Cotton, Robin
1959
Surgeon in Cincinatti, received Jacobson Innovation Award of American College of surgeons 2014 for work in reconstruction of larynx and trachea in children

Cox, Norman Kershaw
1886
Had a distinguished career as a dentist in New Zealand, was instrumental in forming the New Zealand Dental Association and developing a publicly funded dental service in New Zealand.

Evans, Geraint
1974
Doctor in the Royal Navy for 20 years, ultimately Surgeon Captain 

Fox, Jonathan
1969
President of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 2005-2009; Chair of the Council of Medical Colleges in New Zealand and member of the Medical Council of New Zealand.

Gamgee, Leonard Parker
1888
FRCS, surgeon at the Birmingham General Hospital and the Children's Hospital from 1894; Professor of Surgery, Birmingham University (1919-1931)

Gourevitch, Arnold
1931
MC; a Commando doctor, a surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham; went posthaste to serve as a doctor in Israel during the Six Days War. Elected to Hunterian Professorship, Royal College of Surgeons (1966)

Grainger, Edward
1815
At the age of 22 founded an anatomy school in London. Died at the age of 27.

Greenhall, Richard CD
1962
Consultant neurologist, Oxford Hospitals.

Hodgson, Joseph
1804
FRS. One of the founders of the Birmingham Eye Infirmary (1824); President of the Royal College of Surgeons (1864).

Lloyd, Jordan
c 1872
FRCS; Senior surgeon, Queen's Hospital, Birmingham; Professor of Surgery, Birmingham University (1910-1913)

Priest, Robert Cecil
1901
Major-General; Professor of Tropical Medicine at the Royal Army Medical College, London (193?- ?); Inspector-General of Medical Services (1940); Honorary Physician to the King (1934-1941).

Rawll, Christopher Charles Gadsdon
1948
Medical officer in RAF, rising to rank of Wing Commander; subsequently Senior Medical Officer, British Airways (1970-1995); awarded Lady Cade medal for research on filariasia (a mosquito-borne parasitic disease) in 1962

Reasbeck, Philip G
1968
Executive Director Medical Services and Chief Medical Officer, Mackay Hospital and Health Services, Queensland, Australia; previously Director of Surgery, Ballarat Health Services, Victoria. Also Adjunct Professor, College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Queensland (2016), having previously held adjunct appointments at Deakin University, University of Melbourne, and Federation University Australia (all in Victoria)

Sands Cox, William
1819
One of the founders of the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham (1841); founded medical scholarships at KES.

Shapero, Jonathan
1971
Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist

Turton, John
1752
FRS (1763); FRCP (1767); Physician-in-Ordinary to the Queen (1782) and to the King and the Prince of Wales (1792)

Wood, Robin
1967
Director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town; FRS (South Africa).