Sir Felix Maximilian Schoenbrunn Cassel, 1st Baronet, PC, QC, JP was a German-born British barrister and politician who served as Judge Advocate-General, the senior civilian lawyer of the War Office responsible for the administration of courts-martial, from 1915 to 1934.
15 Facts About Felix Cassel
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Felix Cassel's father was Louis Schoenbrunn Cassel and his uncle was the philanthropist Sir Ernest Cassel.
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Felix Cassel was educated at Elstree School and Harrow School, and won a scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he obtained firsts in classical mods in 1891 and jurisprudence in 1892.
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Felix Cassel was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1894 and took silk in 1906, practising in Chancery.
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Felix Cassel became a bencher of Lincoln's Inn in 1912 and treasurer in 1935.
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Felix Cassel had previously been defeated standing for Hackney Central in the January 1910 general election.
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Felix Cassel was promoted to the temporary rank of captain on 21 June 1915.
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Felix Cassel was created a baronet in the 1920 New Year Honours.
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Felix Cassel chaired the Board of Trade committee on compulsory insurance from 1935 to 1937.
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Felix Cassel was appointed an honorary fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1942, and was a member of the Council of Legal Education from 1943.
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Felix Cassel took part in his family's philanthropic work, chairing the Cassel Educational Trust and the management committee of the Cassel Hospital.
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Felix Cassel was a member of the council of the King Edward VII Sanatorium in Midhurst, Sussex.
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Felix Cassel was master of the Worshipful Company of Musicians from 1939 to 1944.
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Felix Cassel endowed three annual Cassel Scholarships at Lincoln's Inn.
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Felix Cassel died in hospital at Midhurst on 22 February 1953 aged 83 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, Francis.