Admiralty Advocate
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The Admiralty Advocate was one of the Law Officers of the Crown
. He represented the Crown in the High Court of Admiralty. After 1875, when the Admiralty Court became part of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the new High Court of Justice
, the office became obsolete.
Law Officers of the Crown
The Law Officers of the Crown are the chief legal advisers to the Crown, and advise and represent the various governments in the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth Realms. In England and Wales, Northern Ireland and most Commonwealth and colonial governments, the chief law officer of the...
. He represented the Crown in the High Court of Admiralty. After 1875, when the Admiralty Court became part of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the new High Court of Justice
High Court of Justice
The High Court of Justice is, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales...
, the office became obsolete.
Admiralty Advocates after 1660
- 29 October 1661: William TurnerWilliam TurnerWilliam Turner MA was an English divine and reformer, a physician and a natural historian. He studied medicine in Italy, and was a friend of the great Swiss naturalist, Conrad Gessner...
- date unknown: Sir Walter WalkerWalter WalkerGeneral Sir Walter Colyear Walker KCB, CBE, DSO & bar was a British General.-Early life:Walker was born on a tea plantation in British India to a military family, one of four sons. At the end of the First World War Walker and his family moved back to Britain and he was sent to Blundell's School in...
- 19 May 1674: Richard Lloyd
- 13 September 1685: Thomas Pinfold
- 17 July 1686: William Oldiss
- 17 September 1693: Fisher Littleton
- 26 January 1694: Henry NewtonHenry NewtonHenry Newton may refer to:* Sir Henry Newton, baronet , after a change of surname Sir Henry Puckering, 3rd Baronet* Henry Newton , Member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1758 to 1760...
(temporarily during the illness of Littleton) - 16 March 1697: Henry Newton (permanently)
- 15 November 1704: Nathaniel LloydNathaniel LloydSir Nathaniel Lloyd was an English jurist and Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.-Life:Born in the Savoy Hospital 29 November 1669, eldest son of Sir Richard Lloyd by Elizabeth, his wife. He was educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Oxford, where he matriculated 9 April 1685. He was...
(deputy during the absence of Newton) - 28 October 1714: Henry Penrice
- 15 August 1715: Richard FullerRichard FullerRichard Fuller is an American classical pianist and interpreter of the fortepiano repertoire.-Early life and musical education:Born in Washington, Fuller initially studied piano with his mother, Georgette Fuller...
- 30 March 1727: Exton Sayer
- 1 October 1731: Edmund Ishan
- 20 March 1741: William StrahanWilliam StrahanWilliam Strahan was a Scottish printer and publisher, and a Member of Parliament.Born in Edinburgh as William Strachan, and educated at the Royal High School, Strahan was originally apprenticed to an Edinburgh printer but became a Master Printer in London...
- 9 August 1748: Thomas Salusbury
- 14 November 1751: Charles Pinfold, junior
- 15 February 1756: John Bettesworth
- 14 June 1764: George HarrisGeorge HarrisGeorge Harris may refer to:*George Harris, 1st Baron Harris , British general*George Prideaux Robert Harris , Australian naturalist*George Harris , English Unitarian minister in Scotland...
- 1 May 1782: William ScottWilliam Scott, 1st Baron StowellWilliam Scott, 1st Baron Stowell was an English judge and jurist.-Background and education:Scott was born at Heworth, a village about four miles from Newcastle upon Tyne, the son of a coalfitter . His younger brother John Scott became Lord Chancellor and was made Earl of Eldon...
- 4 September 1788: Thomas BeverThomas BeverThomas G. Bever is a Regent's Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, Language, Reading and Culture and Neuroscience at the University of Arizona. He specializes in language acquisition, focusing on the cognitive and neurological sources...
- 12 November 1791: William BattineWilliam BattineWilliam Battine , was the English holder of many legal offices, and poet.-Life:Battine was born at East Morden, Sussex, 25 January 1765. Through his mother's family, he was stated to be one of the coheirs of the long dormant barony of Bray, but he never publicly urged his claim...
- 1 March 1801: Sir Christopher RobinsonChristopher RobinsonChristopher Robinson, QC was a Canadian lawyer and prosecutor known for representing the Government of Canada in a number of high profile cases and international disputes. Upon graduation from Upper Canada College, he obtained a BA from Trinity College and a MA from the same institution and was...
- 25 November 1811: James Henry Arnold
- 11 March 1829: John Dodson
- 25 October 1834: Joseph PhillimoreJoseph PhillimoreJoseph Phillimore was an English civil lawyer and politician, Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford from 1809.-Life:The eldest son of Joseph Phillimore, vicar of Orton-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire, by Mary, daughter of John Machin of Kensington, was born on 14 September 1775...
- 1855: Robert Joseph PhillimoreRobert Joseph PhillimoreSir Robert Joseph Phillimore, 1st Baronet PC ,was an English judge and politician.Born in Whitehall, he was the third son of Joseph Phillimore, a well-known ecclesiastical lawyer. Educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where a lifelong friendship with W. E...
- 1862: Travers TwissTravers TwissSir Travers Twiss QC FRS was an English jurist.Twiss was the eldest son of the Rev. Robert Twiss. At University College, Oxford, he obtained a first-class degree in mathematics and a second in classics in 1830, and was elected a Fellow of his college, of which he was afterwards successively...
- 1867: James Parker Deane