LEWIS
,
Sir
WILFRID HUBERT POYER
(
1881
-
1950
),
judge
;
b.
9 Feb. 1881
in
London
, s. of
Arthur Griffith Poyer
Lewis
,
barrister-at-law
, of
Henllan
, near
Narberth, Pembs.
, and
Annie Wilhelmine
, his wife, and grandson of
Richard
Lewis
,
Bishop of Llandaff
from
1883 to 1905
. He was educated at
Eton
and
University College
,
Oxford
, where he graduated in history in
1903
. He was
called to the Bar
by the
Inner Temple
in
1908
and served in the
South Wales Circuit
until
1914
. Between
1914 and 1919
he served as an
officer in the Army
with the
Glamorgan Yeomanry
and was twice
mentioned in despatches
and awarded the
O.B.E.
After the war he settled in
London
, where he was eminently successful as a
barrister
. He
specialised in ecclesiastical law
and was
chancellor of the dioceses
of
Llandaff
,
1914-35
,
Monmouth
,
1921-35
,
Manchester
and
Blackburn
,
1929-35
, and
Worcester
,
1930-35
. In
1930
, he became a
junior counsel to the Treasury
, and was in
July 1935
appointed
judge
in the
King's Bench division
and
knighted
. On his first circuit in
Wales
he heard the case of the burning of the aerodrome in
Llŷn
at
Caernarfon
, when the jury failed to agree on a verdict. He served as
J.P.
,
chairman of Quarter Sessions
, and
Deputy Lieutenant
of
Pembrokeshire
. He m. (1), in
1908
,
Margaret Annie
(d.
1932
), dau. of
Sir
John Eldon
Bankes
of
Soughton Hall
,
Northop, Flints.
(see above)
, and in
1934
(2),
Elizabeth
, dau. of
Dr.
David Barty
King
of
London
. He d.
15 Mar. 1950
.
Bibliography:
-
The Times
,
16 Mar. 1950
;
-
Who was who?
,
1941-50
;
-
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
,
1941-50
.
Author:
Griffith Milwyn Griffiths, M.A., Aberystwyth
