John Lort-Williams
Sir John Rolleston Lort-Williams[1] (14 September 1881 – 9 June 1966) was a Judge and MP for Rotherhithe between the general elections of 1918 and 1923.[2][3]
Lort-Williams was born in Walsall, the only son of Charles William Williams, a local solicitor.[4] He stood for election for the Conservative Party at the Pembrokeshire during the United Kingdom general election, 1906 and the Pembrokeshire by-election, 1908, but lost, first to John Wynford Philipps and then to Walter Roch.[5]
From 1907-10 he represented Tower Hamlets, Limehouse on the London County Council as a Municipal Reform Party councillor.[6] [7] In 1918 he was elected to parliament at Rotherhithe.
After not being reelected in 1923, Lort-Williams became Recorder of Walsall in 1924.[2] In 1927 he was appointed as a Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Calcutta, in succession to William Ewart Greaves.[2][4] In 1936, while being Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, Lort-Williams was styled as Knight Bachelor.[1]
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Rotherhithe 1918 – 1923 |
Succeeded by Sir Benjamin Smith |
