Background
Herbert Edmund-Davies was born on July 15, 1906 in (as Herbert Edmund Davies), Mountain Ash, Glam. Son of Morgan John and Elizabeth Maud Davies (née Edmunds).
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Herbert Edmund-Davies
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Mountain Ash Grammar School, King"s College, London and Exeter College, Oxford.
Career
Lecturer and Examiner, London University 1930-1931. Army Officers’ Emergency Reserve 1938, Infantry OCTU, later commissioned Royal Welch Fusiliers 1940. Queen"s Counsel 1943, Bencher 1948, Treasure 1965, 1966.
Assistant Judge Advocate-General 1944-1945.
Judge of High Court of justice, Queen"s Bench Division 1958-1966. Lord Justice of Appeal 1966-1974.
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1974-1981. Chairman Lord Chancellor’s Committee on Limitation of Actions 1961, Tribunal of Inquiry into Aberfan Disaster 1966, Council of Law Reporting 1967-1972, Home Secretary’s Criminal Law Revision Committee 1969-1977, Home Office Committee of Inquiry into Police 1977-1979.
Life; President University College, of Swansea 1965-1975.
Pro-Chancellor University of Wales 1974-1984. President London Welsh Association and Trust since 1982. Life Governor and Fellow, King"s College, London.
Honorary Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford.
Honorary Doctor of Laws (London), (Wales), (Buckingham) 1989.
Membership
Canadian Bar Association. Royal Society of Medicine:.
Connections
Married Eurwen Williams-James in 1935.
