Eustace Roskill, Baron Roskill

[2] Roskill studied afterwards as a Harmsworth Law Scholar at the Middle Temple and was called to the bar in 1933.

[1] He was nominated a Justice of the Peace in 1950, assigned to Hampshire and became deputy chairman of the county's Quarter Sessions in the year thereafter.

[2] In 1962 Roskill received an appointment as judge on the High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division) and was therefore knighted.

[1] Roskill filled a vacancy as Lord Justice of Appeal in 1971 and on this occasion was sworn of the Privy Council.

[3] Following the death of Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne in 1980, he replaced him as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, receiving the usual life peerage with the title Baron Roskill, of Newtown, in the County of Hampshire.