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JUDGES AND LAWYERS

Bush, Brian Drex
1941
Kt; Appointed County Court judge (1969); Judge of the Family Division of the High Court (1976-1989).

Cardinal, Martin
1971
Circuit Judge and Chancellor of the Diocese of Birmingham.

Carr, Norman A
1919
County Court judge in Worcestershire and Herefordshire (1955-1969).

Davies, Alfred William Michael
1939
Kt; Judge of the Queens Bench Division of the High Court (1973-1991).

Davison, William Norris
1937
County Court judge (1971- ).

Dobbs, A E
1933
Supreme Court Judge, Sierra Leone.

Donaldson, Alan
1955
District Judge (1978-1996).

Finnemore, Donald L
1908
Kt; Judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court (1947-1964); school governor; President of the Baptist Union (1966).

Green, Nicholas
1977
Barrister, QC 1998, Chairman of the Bar Council from 2010.

Kaufman, Nick
1986
Former Prosecutor and now Defense Counsel, at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, The Hague

Laughland, Graham Franklyn Bruce
1950
QC (1977), defence counsel for Clive Ponting in the GCHQ trial; Circuit Judge (1989-2002).

Lee, Malcolm Kenneth
1961
QC; Recorder of the Crown Court (1980-1993); Circuit Judge and Designated Circuit Mercantile Judge in Birmingham (1993-1999).

McCardie, Henry Alfred
1885
Kt, Judge of the Kings Bench Division of the High Court (1917-1933).

Schiemann, Konrad H T
1955
Judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court (1985- ), Lord Justice of Appeal.

Singer, Jan Peter
1963
Judge of the Family Division of the High Court (1993- ).

Sessions, John
1959
Commander in the Royal Navy; Circuit Judge for the south-eastern circuit 1992; Judge Advocate of the Fleet 1995-2008.

Wills, Alfred
1846 (c)
Judge of the Queens Bench Division of the High Court (1883-1904), presided over second criminal trial of Oscar Wilde; the first British Tourist to climb the Matterhorn, in 1854; President of the Alpine Club, 1854-1856.

 


 

MEDICAL AND DENTAL PROFESSIONS

Baker, Alfred
FRCS; founder of the Sydenham Medical College.

Cox, Norman Kershaw
1886
Had a distinguished career as a dentist in New Zealand, was instrumental in forming the New Zealand Dental Association and developing a publicly funded dental service in New Zealand.

Fox, Jonathan
1969
President of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 2005-2009; Chair of the Council of Medical Colleges in New Zealand and member of the Medical Council of New Zealand.

Gourevitch, Arnold
1931
MC; a Commando doctor, a surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham; went posthaste to serve as a doctor in Israel during the Six Days War. Elected to Hunterian Professorship, Royal College of Surgeons (1966)

Grainger, Edward
1815
At the age of 22 founded an anatomy school in London. Died at the age of 27.

Greenhall, Richard CD
1962
Consultant neurologist, Oxford Hospitals.

Hodgson, Joseph
1804
FRS. One of the founders of the Birmingham Eye Infirmary (1824); President of the Royal College of Surgeons (1864).

Myers, Walter
1888
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, died aged 29 in Brazil while leading an expedition investigating the cause of yellow fever.

Priest, Robert Cecil
1903?
Major-General; Professor of Tropical Medicine at the Royal Army Medical College, London (193?- ?); Inspector-General of Medical Services (1940); Honorary Physician to the King (1934-1941).

Sands Cox, William
1819
One of the founders of the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham (1841); founded medical scholarships at KES.

Turton, John
1752
FRS (1763); FRCP (1767); Physician-in-Ordinary to the Queen (1782) and to the King and the Prince of Wales (1792)