Charles Sargant

Sir Charles Henry Sargant (20 April 1856 – 23 July 1942) was a British barrister judge who served as Lord Justice of Appeal from 1923 to 1928.

[1] After spending a year in a solicitors' firm, and reading as a pupil in the chambers of conveyancer Edward Parker Wolstenholme,[2] he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1882.

[1] He was appointed junior counsel to the Treasury in equity matters in 1908 and was elected a bencher of Lincoln's Inn the same year.

After the First World War, Sargant chaired the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, but was forced to give up the chairmanship upon his promotion to the Court of Appeal.

[1] His son, Sir Henry Edmund Sargant, was a solicitor and president of the Law Society in 1968–69.