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Samuel Lowry Porter, Baron Porter, {{postnominals|country=GBR|GBE|PC|sep=,|size=100}} (7 February 1877 – 13 February 1956) was a British judge.

Early life and career

Born in Leeds, Porter was educated at the Perse School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he took a Third in Classics and a Second in Law.^[1] He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1905. His legal career was interrupted by World War I. Commissioned into the British Army, he ended the war as a captain on the general list. He was appointed MBE for his war service.

He was appointed King's Counsel in 1925.^[2] He was Recorder of Newcastle under Lyme from 1928 to 1932 and Recorder of Walsall from 1932 to 1934.^[3]^[4]

Judicial career

On 7 November 1934, he was appointed to the High Court, assigned to the King's Bench Division, and received the customary knighthood on 24 November.^[5]^[6]

On 28 March 1938, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (without having previously served as a Lord Justice of Appeal) and created a life peer with the title Baron Porter, of Longfield in County Tyrone.^[7] On 1 April, he was sworn of the Privy Council.^[8] In 1939, he was appointed to chair the Lord Chancellor's committee on defamation law. The committee's work was delayed as a result of World War II, not producing its report until 1948. The report's conclusions were implemented by the Defamation Act 1952.^[9]

Porter sat on the appeal of William Joyce, commonly known as "Lord Haw-Haw", who had been convicted of treason for his war-time propaganda broadcasts from Nazi Germany, and dissented from the majority.^[10] He also dissented in National Anti-Vivisection Society v Inland Revenue Commissioners (1948), a leading case concerning charitable trusts.

Porter resigned as Lord of Appeal in 1954, having been appointed to the Order of the British Empire as a Knight Grand Cross (GBE) in the 1951 New Year Honours.^[11]

In his last years, Lord Porter took up rooms at Emmanuel College, of which he was an honorary fellow from 1937.^[1] He died at the London Clinic on 13 November 1956, having been due to serve as Treasurer of the Inner Temple in 1957. He was unmarried.^[1]

References

1. ^¹²{{Cite ODNB|author=H. G. Hanbury|author2=D. G. T. Williams|id=35580|title=Porter, Samuel Lowry, Baron Porter}}
2. ^{{London Gazette |issue=33029 |date=13 March 1925 |page=1773}}
3. ^{{London Gazette |issue=33449 |date=21 December 1928 |page=8399 |supp=y }}
4. ^{{London Gazette |issue=33795 |date=2 February 1932 |page=704}}
5. ^{{London Gazette |issue=34103 |date=9 November 1934 |page=7154}}
6. ^{{London Gazette |issue=34108 |date=27 November 1934 |page=7610}}
7. ^{{London Gazette |issue=34497 |date=29 March 1938 |page=2083}}
8. ^{{London Gazette |issue=34499 |date=5 April 1938 |page=2239 }}
9. ^"Death of Lord Porter - Distinguished Judge", The Glasgow Herald, 14 February 1956, p. 8.
10. ^(1946) A.C. 347
11. ^{{London Gazette |issue=39104 |date=1 January 1951 |page=10 |supp=y}}