Lord Scarman, OBE, PC (1911-2004)

[Michael Rhodes]

The Lord Scarman, OBE, PC, who has died aged 93, was a Lord of Appeal
in Ordinary and Chancellor of the University of Warwick.

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Leslie George Scarman was born 29 July, 1911, and educated at Radley
and Brasnose College, Oxford (MA, Hon Fellow, 1966); Hon. LLD Glasgow,
Exeter, London, Keele, Freiburg, Warwick and Bristol.

Career:Called to the Bar at the Middle Temple, 1936; served in the
Second World War as a Wing Commander (R.A.F.V.R.); appointed OBE
(Military) 1945; QC, 1957; Bencher, 1961;a Judge of the High Court of
Justice (Probate Divorce and Admiralty Division, now Family Division),
1961-72; Chairman of the Law Commission, 1965-72; a Lord Justice of
Appeal, 1972-77;, then a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary; Chancellor of
Warwick University from 1978;

Scarman was knighted in 1961, and raised to the peerage as a life baron
in 1977 taking the title Baron Scarman, of Quatt, County Salop.

He married in 1947, Ruth Clement, daughter of Clement Wright, ICS.
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Michael Rhodes