Sir Arthur Clavell Salter KC (30 October 1859 – 30 November 1928) was a British Conservative Party politician and judge who sat on the Kings Bench Division 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 Wimborne Grammar School and King's College London, 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 World War 1 in 1918. After Mary's death, he married Nora Constance, of Lieutenant Colonel T. H. Ouchterloney.

Career

He was called to the Bar in 1885 by the

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, 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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