Henry Phillimore

Sir Henry Josceline Phillimore, OBE, PC (25 December 1910 – 4 June 1974) was an English barrister and judge, who served as a Lord Justice of Appeal from 1968 to 1974.

He was educated at Eton College, where he was an Oppidan, and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took second-class honours in Greats.

The following year, he was promoted colonel and was appointed continental secretary of the British War Crimes Executive.

In 1959, Phillimore was appointed a Justice of the High Court and assigned to the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, receiving the customary knighthood.

Phillimore was a member of the Royal Commission on Assizes and Quarter Sessions, which recommended their abolition, between 1967 and 1969, and was chairman of the Committee on Contempt of Court from 1971 to 1974.