Sir Arthur Clavell Salter (30 October 1859 – 30 November 1928) was a British Conservative Party politician and judge who sat on the

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of the

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Early life and education

Born to Dr Henry Hyde Salter, FRS (1823–71) and his wife Henrietta, Salter was educated at

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and

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, where he studied arts and law. He married Mary Dorothea (d. 1917) in 1894, daughter of Major J. H. Lloyd. Him and Mary had a daughter and a son, 2nd Lieutenant John Henry Clavell Salter, who was killed in action in

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in 1918. After Mary's death, he married Nora Constance, of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Heathcote Ouchterloney.

Career

He was

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in 1885 by the

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, and joined the western circuit in the following year. He became a

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in 1904 and was elected as a Member of Parliament for

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in 1906, where he sat until his appointment as a High Court Judge in 1917, and sat on the Kings Bench Division. He also served as the Recorder of Poole from 1904 to 1917. During his tenure, he sat on a number of high-profile cases such as that of

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in 1922, an MP. He served on the High Court until his death on 30 November 1928.

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