William Pickford, 1st Baron Sterndale
William Pickford, 1st Baron Sterndale, PC (1 October 1848 – 17 August 1923) was a British lawyer and judge.He served as a Lord Justice of Appeal between 1914 and 1918, as President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division between 1918 and 1919 and as Master of the Rolls between 1919 and 1923.He also represented the British government in 1905, in the inquiry after the Dogger Bank incident when Russia sunk some Hull trawlers.[1] Pickford was appointed a judge of the High Court in 1907 and a Lord Justice of Appeal and sworn of the Privy Council in 1914.Lord Sterndale married Alice Mary Brooke, of Sibton Park Suffolk, on 18 August 1880.
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