Frank Merriman, 1st Baron Merriman

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Frank Boyd Merriman, 1st Baron Merriman PC KC OBE GCVO (28 April 1880 – 18 January 1962), often known as Boyd Merriman, was a Conservative Party politician and judge in the United Kingdom.

Funerary monument, Brompton Cemetery, London

Merrman was born in Knutsford, Cheshire, and educated at Winchester College. He did not go to university, but became an articled clerk with a firms of solicitors in Manchester, and later studied for the bar. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1904, and became a King's Counsel (KC) in 1919. During World War I, he served with the Manchester Regiment.

He was elected at the 1924 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester Rusholme, and served as Solicitor General for England and Wales from 1928 to 1929, and from 1932 to 1933.

Merriman left Parliament in 1933, when he was appointed as President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court. He was knighted in 1928, elevated to the peerage in 1941 as Baron Merriman, and appointed in 1950 as a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO). The peerage became extinct when he died in London in 1962, aged 81. He is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.

[edit] Family

Merriman married three times:

in 1907 to Eva Mary Freer, who died in 1919; they had two daughters
in 1920 to Olive McLaren (died 1952)
in 1953 to Jane Lamb, who survived him

[edit] References

Dictionary of National Biography: Merriman, (Frank) Boyd,
Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman	Member of Parliament for Manchester Rusholme 1924–1933	Succeeded by Edmund Ashworth Radford
Legal offices
Preceded by Thomas Inskip	Solicitor General for England and Wales 1928–1929	Succeeded by James Melville
Preceded by Thomas Inskip	Solicitor General for England and Wales 1932–1933	Succeeded by Donald Somervell
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by (new creation)	Baron Merriman 1932–1933	Succeeded by (extinct)