Background
Glyn-Jones was the son of pharmacist Sir William Glyn-Jones (1869-1927), founder of the Proprietary Articles Trade Association in 1896 and Liberal Member of Parliament for Stepney from 1910 until the constituency was abolished in 1918.
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Hildreth Glyn-Jones
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He was educated at the City of London School and qualified as a pharmacist before serving in the First World War.
Career
His practice as a barrister included both civil and criminal matters. He served in the Middlesex Regiment and the Judge Advocate-General" General’ s Office in the Second World War. He became a King"s Counsel in 1943 and was awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1950.
Glyn-Jones was leader of the Wales and Chester Circuit in 1944-1945 and Recorder of Cardiff from 1945 to 1952.
He was Deputy Chairman of the Berkshire Quarter Sessions from 1951 to 1962. He became a Commissioner of Assize on the Oxford Circuit and a Bencher at Middle Temple in 1952, and was appointed as a High Court judge in 1953, allocated to the Queen"s Bench Division and receiving the customary knighthood.
Among his notable cases as a judge were the Shepherd"s Bush murders. After he retired as a judge in 1968, he became a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in 1975.
