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Crocker, Sir William Charles (1886-1973)

Mark Lunney

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Abstract

Crocker, Sir William Charles (1886-1973), lawyer, was born at 8 Tytherton Road, Upper Holloway, London, on 19 May 1886, the son of Thomas Edward Crocker, a law clerk, and his wife, Emma, nee Whyte. Crocker served his articles of clerkship with his father and was admitted as a solicitor in 1912. Shortly before his admission, on 25 January 1911, he married Mary Madeline (1884/5-1953), daughter ofAlfred Harris Tailby, a draughtsman, with whom he had one son and five daughters. He served in the First World War, first in the Artists' Rifles and later as a second lieutenant with the 4th Dorset regiment, winning the Military Cross.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOxford Dictionary of National Biography
Editors Matthew, H.C.G., Harrison, B
Place of PublicationOxford, United Kingdom
PublisherOxford University Press
Pages229-230
Volume14
Edition1
ISBN (Print)019861411X, 0198613644
Publication statusPublished - 2004

Keywords

  • History and Philosophy of Law and Justice

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