Charles Swinfen Eady, 1st Baron Swinfen

[1] He was appointed a Judge of the High Court of Justice (Chancery Division) in November 1901,[2] and knighted the following month.He had been admitted to the Privy Council in 1913 and on 1 November 1919 was raised to the peerage as Baron Swinfen, of Chertsey in the County of Surrey.[4] Mr Justice Swinfen Eady gave a key judgment in 1903 which protected Kodak's trademarks from infringement from competitors,[5] which the British Journal of Photography described as the most important for photography to have been heard since Talbot v. Laroche in 1854.He also gave the judgment in Percival v Wright [1902] 2 Ch 401, a key decision on directors' duties.He died, aged sixty-eight, at 33 Hyde Park Gardens, London, on 15 November 1919, only two weeks after his elevation to the peerage.
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