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Thursday, October 06, 2022

Robert Donald Harman, KC 1928-2022

 Robert Donald Harman, KC, who died 30 September, 2022, aged 94, was a Recorder of the Crown Court 1972-97.

He was born 26 September, 1928, scion of the Harman landed gentry family, son of Herbert Donald Harman, MC and his wife the former Dorothy Fleming; and married 1stly, 1960, Sarah Elizabeth Cleverly [who died 1965], by whom he had two sons; married 2ndly, 21 February, 1968, Rosamond Geraldine Scott, JP [born 6 June, 1938], descended from the Bolitho landed family and the Jervoise baronets, second daughter of Commander Geoffrey Thomas Archibald Scott, RN [1895-1958], and his wife the former Geraldine Amelia Watt, by whom he had two daughters.

Career: Called to the Bar at Gray's Inn, 1954; Bencher, 1984; South Eastern Circuit; a Junior Prosecuting Counsel to the Crown at the Central Criminal Court 1967-72; a Senior Treasury Counsel 1972-74; Member of the Senate of the Inns of Court and Bar 1985-87; Appeal Steward BBB of C 1981-98; Liveryman of the Goldsmiths' Co, &c.

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