14 Facts About Cecil Havers

Sir Cecil Robert Havers was an English barrister and High Court judge.

Cecil Havers was educated at Norwich Grammar School and then at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, graduating with a first-class BA in classics in 1912 and an LLB in 1913.

Cecil Havers played tennis for the University of Cambridge, and played in the men's doubles in the 1926 Wimbledon Championships with Basil Lawrence, winning a first-round match in five sets and then losing in the second round.

Cecil Havers was transferred to serve as Acting Captain with the Tank Corps in April 1918, and then temporary Captain in February 1919.

Cecil Havers was mentioned in dispatches in December 1918 while serving with the Tank Corps.

Cecil Havers was called to the Bar at Inner Temple in 1920, coming top of the bar examinations, and "took silk" to become a King's Counsel in 1939.

Cecil Havers served as recorder of Chichester from 1939 to 1951.

Cecil Havers became a bencher at Inner Temple in 1946, and served as Treasurer in 1971.

Cecil Havers was elected as an honorary fellow of Corpus Christi in 1975.

Cecil Havers was appointed a High Court judge in 1951, being assigned to the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, and received the customary knighthood.

Cecil Havers was transferred to the King's Bench Division in 1952.

Cecil Havers was the trial judge who presided over the conviction of Ruth Ellis for murder in 1955.

Cecil Havers subsequently sent money annually for the upkeep of Ellis's son.

Cecil Havers retired as a full-time judge in 1967, and became Deputy Dean of the Arches in 1970.