Sir Arthur Fairfax Charles Coryndon Luxmoore (27 February 1876 – 25 September 1944) was a British

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and judge who sat as a

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Life

Luxmoore was born on 27 February 1876 to Arthur Coryndon Hansler Luxmoore, an artist, and his wife Katherine. After studying at

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he matriculated to

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, which he represented in rugby and cricket.

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in 1899, he took a place in the chambers of George Cave after graduation in 1900. After playing for the

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against both Scotland and Wales he threw himself into his work as a

, and built up a successful practice. In 1919, he applied to become a

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, and was accepted. He became a

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of Lincoln's Inn in 1922. In 1924 he contested

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as a Liberal candidate. He was sworn in as JP for Kent in 1927. In February 1929 was knighted and made a judge of the

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of the

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. A well-respected and hard working judge as well as the senior puisne Chancery judge, Luxmoore was promoted to the

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in October 1938 on the creation of a third division of the Court of Appeal, and made a privy councillor. Although not normally delivering the leading judgment, his secondary judgments and dissenting judgments proved valuable, and dissenting judgments were several times upheld by the

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. In 1943, he was made Treasurer of Lincoln's Inn, but in March was taken ill suffering from overwork. He returned to the Bench, but suffered a heart attack on 25 September 1944 and died.

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