Wintringham Stable

The Right Honourable
Sir Wintringham Stable
MC
Justice of the High Court
In office
1938–1968
Personal details
NationalityBritish
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford

Sir Wintringham Norton Stable, MC, PC (19 March 1888 – 23 November 1977) was a British High Court judge from 1938 to 1968.[1][2][3]

Stable, known as "Owlie",[3] was admitted to the Middle Temple on 13 November 1908, was called to the bar on 27 January 1913, and was appointed to the Bench of the High Court on 26 November 1938.[4]

He was head of chambers at 2, Crown Office Row, which towards the end of his life moved premises and became known as Fountain Court Chambers. He admitted colleagues who gained his set a strong reputation for commercial litigation, especially Melford Stevenson QC, who succeeded him as head of chambers, Leslie Scarman QC, and Alan Orr QC.[5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference ODNB was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Stable, Sir Wintringham (24 November 1977). "Sign In to The Times & The Sunday Times". account.thetimes.co.uk. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  3. ^ a b Stable, Wintringham Norton (24 November 1977). "Obituary - Sir W. Stable". Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 19 December 2000. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  4. ^ Sturgess, H.A.C., Register of Admissions to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, Vol. II (Butterworth & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1949), p. 774
  5. ^ History at fountaincourt.co.uk, accessed 8 March 2019