Gorell Barnes, 1st Baron Gorell

The Right Honourable The Lord Gorell PC, QC
"Admiralty Jurisdiction" Barnes as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, February 1893
Judge of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice
In office 1892–1905
Personal details
Born	May 16, 1848(1848-05-16)
Died	April 22, 1913(1913-04-22) (aged 64)
Nationality	British
Spouse(s)	Mary Barnes nee Mitchell
Children	Henry Gorell Barnes
Alma mater	Peterhouse, Cambridge

John Gorell Barnes, 1st Baron Gorell PC QC (16 May 1848-22 April 1913), was a British lawyer and judge.

Biography

Gorell was the eldest son of Henry Barnes, a shipowner of Liverpool, and was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge.^[1] He began work as a solicitor, but was called to the Bar in 1876 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1888. Gorell served as a Judge of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice from 1892 to 1905 and as its President from 1905 to 1909. He was admitted to the Privy Council in 1905 and in 1909 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Gorell, of Brampton in the County of Derby.

Lord Gorell married Mary, daughter of Thomas Mitchell, in 1881. He died in April 1913, aged 64, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Henry Gorell Barnes.

References

1. ^ Barnes, John Gorell in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911 edition

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Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New Creation	Baron Gorell	Succeeded by Henry Gorell Barnes

Persondata
Name	Barnes, John 1st Baron Gorell
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Date of birth	16 May 1848
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Date of death	22 April 1913
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