Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed

Francis Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed, PC (8 August 1899 – 3 October 1966) was a British judge who served as Master of the Rolls, and subsequently became a Law Lord.He became a High Court Judge in 1944 when he was knighted, and Lord Justice of Appeal in 1947, when he was also made a Privy Counsellor.[3] He was raised to the peerage as Baron Evershed, of Stapenhill in the County of Derby, on 20 January 1956.Lord Evershed married Cecily Elizabeth Joan, daughter of Sir Charles Alan Bennett, in 1928.This United Kingdom law-related biographical article is a stub.
Memorial in King's Lynn Minster
Arms as displayed at Lincoln's Inn [ 5 ]
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