Sir Alured Dumbell MLC (12 January 1835 – 12 March 1900) was a senior judge who was

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of the

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. Dumbell was born in

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, the son of the well-known banker, lawyer and politician George Dumbell MHK and Mary Gibson, and was educated at a private school in Douglas. He then entered the firm of Harris and Adams as a law student. He was admitted to the bar in 1858 and soon acquired a large practice in the north of the island. He became High Bailiff of Ramsey in 1873 then Second Deemster in 1880, and finally

in 1883. He was

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in the

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list, and later the same year acted as Deputy Governor of the Isle of Man during the prolonged absence through illness of the Lieutenant-Governor

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.Sir Alured Dumbell
. iRazoo.com. Accessed 22 March 2012. Dumbell died of paralysis in the brain on 12 March 1900.

Family

Dumbell married, in 1875, Mary Rolston, daughter of Major Rolston, of the Indian Army.

Offices of State

* High Bailiff of Ramsey, 1873–1880 * Second Deemster, 1880–1883 *

, 1883–1900

References

1835 births 1900 deaths Knights Bachelor Lieutenant governors of the Isle of Man Manx judges {{authority control