Frederick Inderwick

Frederick Andrew Inderwick KC (23 April 1836 – 16 August 1904) was an English lawyer, antiquarian, and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885.

As a barrister he mainly took divorce cases, which at the time was thought to have impeded his progress to judge.

He was a J.P.[2] Henry Edwin Fenn claimed in Thirty-five years in the divorce court (1910) that Inderwick was always passed over for a judgeship on the grounds that it was not the practice in England to promote to the bench any lawyer whose practice had been mainly in the divorce courts.

[4] He was Mayor of Winchelsea, Sussex in 1892-93 and 1902–03,[5] when he was one of the representatives of the Cinque Ports at the coronation of King Edward VII.

[1][6][7] He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquarians in 1894 and was an author on political and legal history.

"Divorce Court". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1896.