Boyd Merriman, 1st Baron Merriman
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(28 April 1880 – 18 January 1962), often known as Boyd Merriman, was a Conservative Party
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politician and judge
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in the United Kingdom
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Education
Merriman was born in KnutsfordKnutsford
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, Cheshire
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, and educated at Winchester College
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. He did not go to university, but became an articled clerk
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with a firms of solicitor
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s in Manchester
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, and later studied for the bar. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple
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in 1904, and became a King's Counsel (KC) in 1919. During World War I
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, he served with the Manchester Regiment.
Political and judicial career
Merriman was elected at the 1924 general electionUnited Kingdom general election, 1924
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as Member of Parliament
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(MP) for Manchester Rusholme
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, and served as Solicitor General for England and Wales
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under Stanley Baldwin
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from 1928 to 1929 and under Ramsay McDonald from 1932 to 1933. He left Parliament
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in 1933, when he was appointed as President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court
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. He was knight
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ed in 1928 and elevated to the peerage
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in 1941 as Baron Merriman, of Knutsford in the County Palatine of Chester. In 1950 he was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
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(GCVO).
Family
Lord Merriman married three times. He married firstly Eva Mary Freer (d. 1919) in 1907. They had two daughters. He married secondly Olive McLaren (d. 1952) in 1920. He married thirdly Jane Lamb in 1953.The peerage became extinct on Lord Merriman's in London
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in 1962, aged 81. He was survived by his third wife. He is buried in Brompton Cemetery
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, London.