Monday, July 10, 2023

The Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood 1937-2023

 The Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, who died 7 July, 2023, aged 86, was a Law Lord and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, from 2009 to 2012.

Simon Denis Brown was born 9 April, 1937, son of Denis Baer Brown and Edna Elizabeth Brown (née Abrahams).

Simon Brown was appointed a High Court Judge in 1984 and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division, receiving a knighthood on his appointment. He became a Lord Justice of Appeal, a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, in 1992 and was swon of the Privy Council in the same year. He was vice-president of the Civil Division from 2001 to 2003. On 13 January 2004, he was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, and created a life peer, taking the title Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, of Eaton-under-Heywood, in the County of Shropshire. He retired from the House of Lords on 23 June this year.

He married  31 May, 1963, Jennifer Buddicom, by whom he had two sons and one daughter. 

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