SALMON, CYRIL BARNET, BARON
- SALMON, CYRIL BARNET, BARON
- SALMON, CYRIL BARNET, BARON (1903–1991), English judge. Born
in London, the son of a member of the salmon family who co-owned
J. Lyon & Co., and educated at Mill Hill school and Cambridge, Salmon
was admitted to the Bar in 1929 and became a King's Counsel in 1945. His
first judicial appointment in 1947 was as recorder of Gravesend, and in
1957 he was made a high court judge and knighted. In 1964 Salmon was
promoted to lord justice of appeal and two years later he became
chairman of the Royal Commission on Tribunals of Inquiry. In 1972 Salmon
was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in succession to Lord
Donovan, and made a life peer as Baron Salmon. From 1974 to 1976 he was
chairman of the Royal Commission of Conduct in Public Life. In 1967 he
lectured at The Hebrew University on this subject, and his lecture was
published as Tribunals of Inquiry (1967). Salmon was noted
for consistently upholding liberal values.
-ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY:
ODNB online.
(Israel Finestein)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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