Sir Matthew Ingle Joyce, PC (17 July 1839 – 10 March 1930) was a British judge. He was a Justice of the

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of the High Court between 1900 and 1915. Born in

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, he was educated at Ashby-de-la-Zouch Grammar School and

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, where he graduated eighth wrangler in 1862. The same year he was elected to a fellowship at Caius, which he held until 1875. He was called to the bar by

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in 1865. At the bar his pupils included the future Lord Parker of Waddington and Lord Russell of Killowen. He was junior equity counsel to the Treasury from 1886 to 1900, when he was appointed a Justice of the High Court, assigned to the

, and received the customary

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. He retired in 1915, and was sworn of the Privy Council. Joyce married Miriam Bertha Jackson, daughter of

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, in 1891; they had one daughter.

Notable cases

* '' Colls v Home and Colonial Stores''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Joyce, Matthew Ingle Knights Bachelor Chancery Division judges English barristers Members of Lincoln's Inn Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 1839 births 1930 deaths