Background
He was the son of William and Kate Finnemore. He was a grandson of John Skirrow Wright Liberal Member of Parliament for Nottingham.
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He was the son of William and Kate Finnemore. He was a grandson of John Skirrow Wright Liberal Member of Parliament for Nottingham.
He was educated at King Edward"s School, Birmingham and Pembroke College, Oxford (Scholar).
He was a committed Baptist and Teetotaller who was an active supporter of the Boys" Brigade. He was awarded a First Class in Jurisprudence and Proxime accessit for the Vinerian Law Scholarship at Oxford. He served in France as British Red Cross Officer from 1916-1919.
He was called by Inner Temple (Prize for Constitutional Law and Legal History) in 1914 and worked on the Midland Circuit.
In 1930, he was involved in the so-called Blazing Carolina murder case. He was Honorary Legal Adviser to the Midland Regional Commissioner for Civil Defence, 1940-1945.
He was Chairman of the Midland Conscientious Objectors Tribunal, 1940-1947. He was a County Court Judge (North Staffs and Birmingham) 1940-1944, (Wolverhampton, etc) 1944-1946 and (Birmingham) 1946-1947.
He was Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty, 1947-1948.
He was Judge of the High Court (Queen's Bench Division), 1948-1964. He was Chairman Warwickshire Quarter Sessions, 1950-1971. He was a Member, of the Criminal Law Revision Committee, from 1965.
He served as a Justice of the Peace in Warwickshire.
He was Liberal candidate for the Sparkbrook Division of Birmingham at the 1923 General Election. The constituency was not a good prospect for the Liberal Party, and he came third.
He did not contest the 1924 General election. He then was Liberal candidate for the Stourbridge Division of Worcestershire at the 1929 General Election.
He was again Liberal candidate for the Stourbridge Division of Worcestershire at the 1931 General Election.
The election followed the formation of the National Government and there was a national swing to the Conservatives that was reflected in Stourbridge, where Labour lost the seat. He was Liberal candidate for the third time at the Stourbridge Division of Worcestershire at the 1935 General Election. He again finished third and this time saw his vote squeezed a bit by the other two parties.
This was his final attempt to enter parliament.
He became a Life Governor of Birmingham University in 1945 (Honorary Doctor of Laws 1966), a Governor of King Edward’s School in 1946 and an Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College in 1948. In 1947 he was knighted.
He was able to increase the party vote share.
As defending counsel for Alfred Rouse, who was convicted of the murder of an unknown man and hanged.
He was a Member of the Matrimonial (Trial in Provinces) Committee, 1942-1943.