SLADE, Rt Hon Sir Christopher John 1927-2022

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 10 Feb 2022: SLADE Sir Christopher John peacefully at home on 7th February 2022, aged 94. Beloved husband of Jane, father of Lucinda, Victoria, Richard and Amelia, grandfather and great-grandfather. Private family funeral. Thanksgiving service later in the year.

He was s of George Penkivil SLADE 1899-1942 and Mary Albinia Alice 1896-1988 d of William Hartley CARNEGIE 1859-1936 and his 1st w Albinia Frances c1868-1902 d of Sir Thomas Hyde CRAWLEY-BOEVEY 5th Bt 1837-1912. He m 1958 Jane Gwenllian Armstrong b 1936 d of Rt Hon Sir Denys Burton BUCKLEY MBE 1906-98 (s of 1st Baron WRENBURY 1845-1935) and Gwendolen Jane 1905-85 d of Sir Robert ARMSTRONG-JONES CBE 1857-1943 (gf of 1st Earl of SNOWDON 1930-2017), and had a son and three daus as above

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It is perhaps worth remarking that his passing represents something of an end of an era; in that I am pretty sure that he was the last living Appeal Court judge to have sat with Lord Denning.  I have a photograph taken in Denning's room in the Royal Courts of Justice in 1982  with all of his colleagues (my father was one of them), to mark his retirement,  and Slade was certainly the last survivor of those in the photo.

[Richard R]

Obit in the Times of 19 March 2022

E X T R A C T
Sir Christopher Slade obituary
Appeal Court judge and cricket fan whose ruling changed the game for ever
...Christopher John Slade was only 14 when his father died, which made him determined to succeed in the same profession. Born in 1927, he was the eldest of three sons of George Slade KC, a chancery leader of the inter-war period and May (née Carnegie). Christopher’s brothers were Julian Slade, the writer and composer, and Adrian Slade, the last president of the Liberal party...
...Upon his retirement he took considerable pleasure in the fact that Lord Justice Buckley was present on the Bench and that he could once more address his father-in-law as his “brother”. He had married, in 1958, Jane Gwenllian Armstrong Buckley. She survives him, along with their son, Richard, and three daughters, Lucinda, a solicitor, Victoria, a teacher, and Amelia, who is married with children. His friends included Robert Armstrong, the cabinet secretary. Yet his fondness for his family was such that the celebratory party for his 90th birthday included 70 members — and no outsiders...
Sir Christopher Slade, Lord Justice of Appeal, was born on June 2, 1927. He died on February 7, 2022, aged 94
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sir-christopher-slade-obituary-qprhmwvkl