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John Henry Jaunceyc Married Married Married: 1923 Muriel Charlie Hope Dundas Fc | |||||||||||||||||
| Charles Elliot Jauncey [CFT #4140] Born: 1925-May-8 Died: 2007-Jul-18 |
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| b Edinburgh, Scotland d Comrie, Perthshire, Scotland Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. Charles and Jean have 3 children. There were no children born to Charles and his second wife Elizabeth. Charles and his third wife Sarah have a daughter - the Hon. Cressida Jane Jauncey born in 1981. Cressida's engagement to Lt. Col. Thomas M Parsons MBE Scots Guards, son of Mr & Mrs Shaun Parsons of Winstone, Gloucestershire was announced in the Daily Telegraph on 25th January 2019. Lord Jauncey, who has been praised as one of the finest legal minds of his generation in Scotland and whose legal opinions both as advocate and judge commanded immense respect, was the son of Captain John Henry Jauncey who came out of retirement to command destroyers in the Second World War and Muriel Dundas, daughter of Admiral Sir Charles Dundas. After leaving school in 1943 he joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and saw service in Egypt and India. He contracted polio in Ceylon and was invalided home being left with a slight limp for the rest of his life. He undertook a wide range of civil legal work but his practice concentrated mostly on wills, trusts and estates. He became a standing junior counsel to the Ministry of Works in Scotland in 1953 and standing junior counsel to the Admiralty in 1954. He was a Judge of the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey from 1972 to 1979 and became a Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland in 1979. He retired in 1996 but the Queen appointed him a special commissioner and arbitrator in 1998 to determine a dispute between the Dean of Westminster Abbey and its dismissed organist, Dr Martin Neary and Mrs Neary. He was chairman of the House of Lords Committee in 2001/2 that investigated the crash of the RAF Chinook helicopter ZD 576 in the Mull of Kintyre in 1994 that killed all 29 on board. He continued to be active in the House of Lords after his retirement until a stroke in November 2004. |
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