Sir
Richard
Everard Augustine
Elwes
OBE
Born in Brigg, Lincolnshire, England
Ancestors 
Brother of
Geoffrey Robert Gervase John C. Elwes, Rudolph Phillip Elwes, Francis Guy Robert Elwes, Simon Edmund Vincent Paul Elwes RP RA KM, Margaret Elwes and Clare Elwes
Husband of
Mary Freya (Sykes) Elwes
— married
1926 (to 1968) in United Kingdom
Father of
Mary Freya (Elwes) Dimmock
Died
at age 67
in United Kingdom [uncertain]
[uncertain]Profile last modified
| Created 31 Dec 2015
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Biography
Richard was born in 1901. He was the son of Gervase Elwes and Winefride Fielding. He passed away after 1911.[1]
In 1926 he married Mary Freya Sykes, elder daughter of Sir Mark Sykes, 6th Baronet. They had 2 sons and 3 daughters, the eldest was broadcaster Mary Freya "Polly" Elwes, who married fellow broadcaster Peter Dimmock.
In the second World War he served with the 69th Infantry Brigade as a staff captain and was evacuated with the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk. He spent the rest of the war at the War Office as an assistant adjutant general, in charge of English prisoners of war matters. He was appointed OBE and received the Efficiency Decoration in 1944 and received the American Bronze Star Medal in 1945.
He became King's Counsel (KC - senior barrister) in 1950.[2] In 1958, he was appointed a Justice of the High Court of Justice, assigned to the Queen's Bench Division, and received the customary knighthood.
Sources
- ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWL6-FTD : 16 May 2019), Richard Elwes in household of Gervase Elwes, Kensington, London, England, United Kingdom; from "1911 England and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 14, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
- ↑ on the accession of Elizabeth II this title would become Queen's Counsel (QC)
- Wikidata: Item Q59588518, en:Wikipedia
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