Harold Derbyshire
Sir Harold Derbyshire was an English barrister, judge and Liberal Party politician.
Background and education
Derbyshire was born in Cherry Tree, Blackburn, Lancashire, England, the son of James Derbyshire and Elizabeth Kate Chew. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, and then on a scholarship at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he studied Natural Sciences. He afterwards gained an LLB.In 1915 he married Dorothea Alice Taylor in Blackburn.
Legal career
Derbyshire was admitted to Gray's Inn, where he was called to the Bar in 1911. He practised on the Northern Circuit and was made a KC in 1928. He was elected a Bencher of Gray's Inn in 1931. From 1933-34 he served as Judge of Appeal in the Isle of Man. From 1934 to 1946 he was Chief Justice at the High Court of Calcutta in British India. In 1948 he was the Inn's Treasurer.He retired from public life in 1950.