List of Queen's Counsel in England and Wales appointed in 1953

A Queen's Counsel (post-nominal QC), or King's Counsel (post-nominal KC) during the reign of a king, is an eminent lawyer (usually a barrister or advocate) who is appointed by the monarch to be one of "Her Majesty's Counsel learned in the law." The term is recognised as an honorific. Appointments are made from within the legal profession on the basis of merit rather than a particular level of experience. Members have the privilege of sitting within the bar of court. As members wear silk gowns of a particular design (see court dress), appointment as Queen's Counsel is known informally as taking silk, and hence QCs are often colloquially called silks.

The rank emerged in the sixteenth century, but came to prominence over the course of the nineteenth. Appointment was open to barristers only until 1995. The first women KCs had been appointed only in 1949.

1953 NameInns of CourtUniversityNotesRefElliot Marcet GorstInner Temple (1912)–Born in 1885, Gorst was educated at Temple Grove School and Harrow School, and in Jena and Paris. Called to the bar in 1912, he served in the First World War between 1915 and 1918. He authored Guide to Railway Rates Tribunal (1927). He was a member of the Bar Council in 1932 and Deputy Judge at Bloomsbury County Court from 1940 to 1942, before sitting on the Bar Council again between 1948 and 1952. Gorst had a short-lived attempt at a political career, contesting the parliamentary seat of Poplar South in 1929 for the Conservatives, and the Poplar South (1925 and 1928) and Bow and Bromley (1931) seats on the London County Council for the Municipal Reform Party; he was unsuccessful on each count. Gorst farmed in Kent and chaired the Kent and Sussex Poetry Society from 1953. He died in 1973, leaving a wife and daughter."Mr E. M. Gorst QC." Times, 29 Nov. 1973, p. 20.Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes (Kelly's Directories, 1969), p. 850.Bruce Edgar Dutton Briant"Judge B. E. Dutton Briant." Times, 17 Aug. 1959, p. 13.Claude Henry Duveen, MBEMiddle Temple (1927)"Inns of Court", The Times, 18 November 1927, p. 5.New College, OxfordBorn in 1903, Duveen graduated from Oxford in 1925 with a law degree. His legal practice was interrupted by service in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War. He was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Berkshire Quarter Sessions in 1958, and then served as Chairman between 1966 and 1971. He was also a Circuit Judge from 1958 until his death in 1976. He had been appointed an MBE in 1946."Duveen, Claude Henry", Who Was Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 12 May 2019."University news", The Times, 22 July 1925, p. 19.Sir John Watt Senter"Sir John Watt Senter" The Times (London), 16 July 1966, p. 12.Sir Fenton Atkinson, PC"Sir Fenton Atkinson". The Times (London, England), Saturday, Mar 29, 1980; pg. 14Sir Reginald William Goff, PC"Lord Justice Goff." Times, 18 Jan. 1980, p. 16.Jack Messoud Eric Di Victor NahumInner Temple (1929)Merton College, OxfordNahum was born in 1906, the son of a cereal and esparto grass merchant from Trieste who had settled in Manchester; his twin brother was the photographer "Baron". After Clifton College, he went up to Oxford and graduated in 1927. His legal practice was interrupted by service as an officer in the army during Second World War – in India, the Middle East and Iraq. He died unmarried in 1959.William D. Rubinstein, Michael Jolles and Hilary L. Rubinstein (eds.), The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), p. 709."Obituary", The Times, 30 March 1959, p. 10.Merton College Register, 1900–1964 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1964), p. 168.Sir John Patrick Graham"Sir Patrick Graham." Times, 14 Dec. 1993, p. 19.John Frederick Drabble"His Hon John Drabble." Times, 5 Jan. 1983, p. 12.Quintin McGarel Hogg, 2nd Viscount Hailsham, KG, CH, PC, FRSCretney, S. M. "Hogg, Quintin McGarel, second Viscount Hailsham and Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone". Oxford Dictionary of National BiographyRichard Haddow Forrest"Judge Haddow Forrest." Times, 31 Oct. 1977, p. 14.Kenneth Robert Hope JohnstonGray's Inn (1933)Sidney Sussex College, CambridgeBorn in 1905 to Dr. J. A. H. Johnston, headmaster of Highgate School, Kenneth Johnston graduated from Cambridge in 1927. His practice was interrupted by service in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War. In 1958, he became a bencher of Gray's Inn. He died in 1998."Johnston, Kenneth Robert Hope", Who Was Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 12 May 2019.The Cambridge University List of Members for the Year up to 31 December 1991 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 716.Eustace Wentworth Roskill, Baron Roskill, PC"Obituary: Lord Roskill". The Independent. 9 October 1996.Sir John Megaw, CBE, TD"Sir John Megaw". The Times. London. 31 December 1997. p. 21.Sir Rudolph Lyons"His Honour Sir Rudolph Lyons." Times, 26 Feb. 1991, p. 16.Ingram Joseph LindnerMiddle Temple (1935)Fitzwilliam House, CambridgeLindner was born in 1913, the second son of John Lindner, a merchant. After Upton House School, he went up to Cambridge, completing part two of the law tripos in 1934. After being called, he practised at the Chancery bar. He died in 1959.Register of Admissions to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, vol. 3 (1949), p. 943."University news", The Times, 15 June 1934, p. 11.The Jewish Year Book (Jewish Chronicle Publications, 1980), p. 214.Law Times, and Journal of Property, vol. 227, p. 322.Frederick Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones, CH, PC"Jones, (Frederick) Elwyn, Baron Elwyn-Jones", The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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