Gilbert Granville Sharp
Gilbert Granville Sharp (19 February 1894 – 1 November 1968), was a British Liberal Party politician and barrister. Background He was the born in Mafeking, South Africa where his father, Reverend Alfred Spring Sharp of Prestatyn, Flintshire, was a Methodist missionary. His mother, Amelia Adelaide Latham, was the granddaughter of an 1820 Settler from London. Sharp had one brother and two sisters. He was educated at Kingswood School and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. BA, LLB Cambs., 1919. He was President of Cambridge Union in 1921 and the Cambridge University Liberal Club from 1920-1921. He married, in 1915, Margaret Featherstone Kellett. They had one daughter. He married, in 1953, Eleanor Christina Brooke (née Herron). Early career He was in Military Service, 1914–18, Public Schools Battalion and 2nd Scottish Border Regiment, Lieut, France, 1915–16 (wounded in Battle of Somme); Special Instructor of Signals, 1917. Legal career He was Call to Bar, Middle Temple, in 1921. He was President Hardwicke Society, 1924. He was Recorder of King’s Lynn, 1943–57. He was Chief of Legal and Advice Branch, Legal Division (British Section), Austrian Control Commission, 1944–45. He was General Council of the Bar, 1946–48; He was appointed a King's Council in 1948. He was Justice