John Hamilton, 1st Viscount Sumner

John Andrew Hamilton, 1st Viscount Sumner, , High Court of Justice King's Bench Division in 1909, a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1912 in addition to a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary Law Lord in 1913. Created a life peer as Baron Sumner in 1913, he was further honoured when he was granted a hereditary peerage as Viscount Sumner in 1927.

Family in addition to legacy

In 1892, he married Maude Margaret Todd, thedaughter of Reverend John Wood Todd, a Baptist minister who with his wife founded what became Tudor Hall School. Hamilton's marriage was childless, and with Hamilton's death, the viscountcy became extinct. In 2009 a biography of Lord Sumner was published by Anthony Lentin.