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"CHARLES SWINFEN EADY SWINFEN, 1ST Baron (1851-1919), English lawyer and master of the rolls, was born at Chertsey, Surrey, July 31 1851. He was educated privately, and in 1874 was admitted a solicitor, but in 1879 he was called to the bar, having been during his period as a student a pupil of Cozens-Hardy. In 1893 he became a Q.C., and in 1901 was raised to the bench of the Chancery division and knighted. In 1913 he became a lord justice of appeal, and in 1918 master of the rolls in succession to Lord Cozens-Hardy. He retired in 1919 and was raised to the peerage only a few weeks before he died in London Nov. 15 1919.