The Viscount Sumner | |
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 Contemporary photograph of Lord Sumner by Walter Thomas | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 February 1859 Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Lancashire |
| Died | 24 May 1934 (aged 75) |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse |
Maude Margaret Todd (m. 1892) |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
John Andrew Hamilton, 1st Viscount Sumner, GCB, PC (3 February 1859 – 24 May 1934) was a British lawyer and judge. He was appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice (King's Bench Division) in 1909, a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1912 and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (Law Lord) in 1913. Created a life peer as Baron Sumner in 1913, he was further honoured when he was granted a hereditary peerage as Viscount Sumner in 1927.