Horace Avory

Sir Horace Edmund Avory (31 August 1851 – 13 June 1935) was an English barrister and High Court judge.

He was called "thin-lipped, cold, utterly unemotional, silent, and humourless, and relentless towards lying witnesses and brutal criminals" and "impervious to bluff and merciless to perjury".

Famous cases in which he appeared to include the trials of Adolf Beck, Sir Roger Casement, Oscar Wilde (as prosecuting counsel), Jean-Pierre Vaquier,[3] Patrick Mahon, Robert Coombes[4] and Clarence Hatry.

In recognition of his achievements, both Corpus Christi College (Cambridge), and the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple have student scholarships in the name of Horace Avory.

During the night he rolled off onto the floor, was found next morning entangled in a snarl of sheets and blankets, dead of heart failure and pernicious anemia.