Rt. Honorable Arthur Joseph Cohen

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Cohen, Arthur. Adm. Fell.-Com. (age 19) at MAGDALENE, Cambridge Nov. 1, 1849. [3rd s. of Benjamin, of Asgyll House, near Richmond, Surrey, and Justina, dau. of Joseph Montefiore.] B. Nov. 18, 1829. School, University College, London. Matric. Michs. 1849; (5th Wrangler, 1853); B.A. 1858; M.A. 1879. Hon. Fellow, 1883. President of the Union, 1853. University Counsel, 1879-1914. Adm. at the Inner Temple, Nov. 11, 1853. Called to the Bar, 1857. Q.C., 1874. Bencher, 1875. Judge of the Cinque Ports, 1874-1914. M.P. for Southwark, 1880-7. Counsel to the Secretary of State for India, 1893-1914. Chairman of the Bar Council, 1903. Counsel for Great Britain at the Venezuela arbitration at The Hague, 1903. Served on several Royal Commissions. F.B.A., 1903. P.C., 1905. President of the Jewish Board of Deputies. A great lawyer, his mastery of legal principles said by A. V. Dicey to be unsurpassed. For an interesting account of his life and character, see Memoir, by his daughter Lucy Cohen. Of 26, Gt Cumberland Place, London. Died Nov. 3, 1914, aged 84. Buried in the Jewish cemetery at Willesden. (D.N.B.; Twentieth Century; The Times, Nov. 4, 1914.)