Richard Orme Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce, PC (11 March 1907 – 15 February 2003) was a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in the House of Lords from 1964 to 1982. Her Majestys Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British Sovereign. ... is the 70th day of the year (71st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lords of Appeal in Ordinary are Life peers entrusted since the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 with carrying out the judicial functions of the House of Lords. ... The House of Lords, in addition to having a legislative function, has a judicial function as a court of last resort within the United Kingdom. ... Also Nintendo emulator: 1964 (emulator). ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ...

Richard Wilberforce was the great-great-grandson of William Wilberforce, the famous abolitionist, and son of a judge of the Lahore High Court. He grew up in India and attended Winchester College and New College, Oxford, and was later elected a Fellow of All Souls College. He was called to the Bar in 1932 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1954. William Wilberforce (August 24, 1759 – July 29, 1833) was a British politician, philanthropist and slavery abolitionist. ... For the university in Winchester of a similar name, see University of Winchester. ... and of the New College College name New College of St Mary Latin name Collegium Novum Oxoniensis/Collegium Sanctae Mariae Wintoniae Named after Mary, mother of Jesus Established 1379 Sister college Kings College, Cambridge Warden Prof. ... All Souls College (in full: The College of All Souls of the Faithful Departed, of Oxford) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... For information about The Times satire Queens Counsel, see Queens Counsel (comic strip). ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar). ...

He was first appointed to the bench in 1961 as a Chancery judge. Then in 1964 he was appointed to the House of Lords as a Lord Appeal in Ordinary, made additionally a life peer as Baron Wilberforce, of the City and County of Kingston-upon-Hull. He is the only judge in recent times to have been appointed to the House of Lords straight from the High Court Bench, without serving in the Court of Appeal. His decisions were known for being reserved and cautious. Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... In the United Kingdom, Life Peers are appointed members of the Peerage whose titles may not be inherited (those whose titles are inheritable are known as hereditary peers). ... Hull shown within England The unitary authorities of the Ceremonial East Riding. ... This article is about the British House of Lords. ... Her Majestys High Court of Justice (usually known more simply as the High Court) is, together with the Crown Court and the Court of Appeal, part of the Supreme Court of Judicature of England and Wales (which under the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, is to be known as the... Court of Appeals is the title of certain appellate courts in various jurisdictions. ...

Wilberforce was Chancellor of the University of Hull between 1978 and 1994. A Chancellor is the head of a university. ... The Venn Building The University of Hull, also known as Hull University, is an English university located in Hull (or Kingston upon Hull), a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire. ...

Famous judgments

Lord Wilberforce gave many important and prescient judgments, including his judgments in the following cases:

• Securicor Transport Ltd. v. Photo Production Ltd.
• McPhail v Doulton
• Anns v. Merton London Borough Council
• Ramsay v IRC
• Barclays Bank v Quistclose
• McLoughlin v O'Brian
• Williams & Glyn's Bank v Boland
• Frazer v Walker and Radomski
• Ebrahimi v Westbourne Galleries Ltd.
• Eastham v. Newcastle United FC
• Brinkibon Ltd v Stahag Stahl und Stahlwarenhandelsgesellschaft mbH

McPhail v Doulton [1971] AC 424 was a landmark decision of the House of Lords in the law of trusts. ... Anns v. ... The Ramsay Principle is the shorthand name given to the decision of the House of Lords in two important cases in the field of UK tax, reported in 1982: Ramsay v. ... A Quistclose trust is a specific type of trust in common law jurisdictions which arises in relation to sums which are advanced by way of credit to a person for the that persons own use, but for a specific purpose. ... George Edward Eastham OBE (born September 23, 1936) is an English former footballer. ...

External links

• Guardian obituary