Lord Hanworth's death removes from the bench the third member of the Supreme Court of Judicature, the 'Master of the Rolls' immediate seniors being the Lord Chancellor President of the Chancery Division and first member, and the Lord Chief Justice, President of the King's Bench Division and second member. In enelent times the principal clerk of! the Chancery had charge of the records of the Court, "especially of the register of original writs and of all patents and grants under the Great Seal." At the end of the 18th century he came to be called Master of the Rollo and "Rolls" was the name! Elven to the building in which the' Fecords in his custody were kept, Gradually he assumed Judicial duties until at one time he was regarded as vice-chancellor, and accordingly held his court when the Lord Chancellor was not sitting, in the evening] from six o'clock till ten. After 1827 these evening sessions were aband~ oned, 'The Masler of the Rolls had' the peculiar distinction of being the only judge capable of sitting in the House of Commons: that privilege was taken away by the Supreme: Judicature Act of 1673. He now sits with the Lord Justices of Appeal and presides over one of the two divi slons, He is always made a member' of the Privy Council. Sir Ernest Pollock, as he.was before his cle tion tothe Peerage, was an Old Car-thus ian and a Scholar of Trinity College Cambridge. During the War he rendered notable service as Chairman of the Contraband Committee and later as Chairman of the Foreign rade Department.. He sat for thir teen years in the House of Commons 'a5 Conservative member for Leamington before his elevation to the bench. Like so many eminent judges hho had family associations with the law for his father was Master G. F. Pollock Queen's Remembrancer and Senior Master of High Court. His only con was killed in the war but Jeft_a con who now becomes the second Lord Hanworth at the age of 20. The late peer also had daughter who has entered the dramatle profession and-has met with considerable success in the adventure.
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