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Sir Austin Ellis Lloyd Jones

(1884-1967), Judge

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Sir Austin Ellis Lloyd Jones

by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, September 1948
NPG x189540

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Sir Austin Ellis Lloyd Jones

by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, September 1948
NPG x189541

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Richard Clough

27 January 2021, 10:00

Sir Austin Lloyd Ellis Jones was my great uncle being my paternal grandmother's elder and only brother. She had 3 sisters - my great aunts. Their father was the Rev'd Jones, Rector of Hope in North Wales. Austin was educated at Haileybury School and Liverpool University. He was called to the bar and was FE Smith's (1st Lord Birkenhead) pupil. Austin stood for Parliament as a Conservative candidate, I think for Cricketh, but was unsuccessful. He served in the army during WWI and was awarded the MC. He later became a County Court Judge and was one of the first County court Judges to be promoted to the High Court Bench where he sat in the old Probate, Admiralty and Divorce Division of the Hight Court (now the Family Division. He was also a bencher of the Inner Temple. Family history claims that as a judge he held the record for getting through the most undefended divorces in a single day! His nickname on the bench was "The Open Grave" as he appeared to be humourless but in fact he had a lovely wry sense of humour.
He never married and spent much of his life living at either the Travellers Club or the Constitutional Club. He was generous to his sisters, nephews, nieces and great nephews and nieces.
His funeral in 1967 was at Christ Church, East Sheen, London SW14 and he is buried in cemetery which lies alongside Sheen Common.