COHEN, LIONEL LEONARD, BARON
- COHEN, LIONEL LEONARD, BARON
- COHEN, LIONEL LEONARD, BARON (1888–1973), English judge and
jurist. Born in London, he was admitted to the bar in 1913, made a
king's counsel in 1929, a judge of the Chancery Division of the High
Court in 1943, and Lord Justice of Appeal and a privy councillor in
1946. In 1951 he was named a peer as Baron of Walmer and sat in the
House of Lords as a "Lord of Appeal in Ordinary" until 1960. He was
chairman of the Company Law Amendment Committee (1943–45) and acquired
renown as the author of the Companies Act of 1948, which became a model
for company legislation in many countries. Notable among his public
offices were his chairmanship of the Royal Commission on Awards to
Inventors (1946–56) and of the Council on Prices, Productivity, and
Incomes (1957–59) which was known as the Cohen Committee. Cohen followed
his family tradition of general and Jewish public service. He was an
active president of the Jewish Board of Guardians and also president of
the Jewish Historical Society of England and of the Union of Liberal and
Progressive Synagogues. He was vice president of the Board of Deputies.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
P. Emden, Jews of Britain (1943), 177. ADD.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: ODNB online.
(Israel Finestein)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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