Geoffrey Streatfeild (judge)

Sir Geoffrey Hugh Benbow Streatfeild, MC (28 July 1897 – 7 October 1979) was a British barrister and High Court judge in the Queen's Bench Division from 1947 until 1966.

The younger son of Major H. S. Streatfeild, of Ryhope, County Durham, and Barlay, Balmaclellan, Kirkcudbrightshire, Geoffrey Streatfeild was educated at Rugby School.

Joining up directly from school at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, he served with the 4th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, before transferring to the Royal Flying Corps, and the Royal Air Force.

[1] Leaving military service in 1919 with the rank of Captain, Streatfeild was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1921, practiced on the North-Eastern Circuit, and became a King's Counsel in 1938.

Streatfeild was appointed a Justice of the High Court in 1947 and received the customary knighthood.