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Francis Jeune, 1st Baron St Helier

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Monarch
  
Queen Victoria

Education
  
Balliol College

Died
  
April 9, 1905, Pune


Name
  
Francis 1st

Nationality
  
British

Coronation date
  
February 1905

Francis Jeune, 1st Baron St Helier

Monarch
  
Queen Victoria Edward VII

Preceded by
  
Sir Charles Parker Butt

Prime Minister
  
William Ewart Gladstone The Earl of Rosebery

Preceded by
  
William Thackeray Marriott

Born
  
17 March 1843 (
1843-03-17
)

Spouse
  
Mary Jeune, Baroness St Helier (m. 1881–1905)

Succeeded by
  
Gorell Barnes, 1st Baron Gorell

Francis Henry Jeune, 1st Baron St Helier, (17 March 1843 – 9 April 1905), known as Sir Francis Jeune (1891–1905), was a British judge. He was President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice (1892–1905) and Judge Advocate General (1892–1905).

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Background and education

Jeune was the son of The Right Reverend Francis Jeune, Bishop of Peterborough, and Margaret, daughter of Henry Symons. Educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford, he was President of the Oxford Union in 1864. In 1868, he was called to the Bar, Inner Temple.

Judicial career

In 1888, Jeune became a Queen's Counsel. In 1891, he was appointed as a Judge in the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court and knighted. In June 1892, he became President of the Division in succession to Sir Charles Parker Butt and sworn of the Privy Council. In December of that year, he was also appointed Judge Advocate General by Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. He continued as President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division until January 1905 when, beset by ill health, he resigned. In 1897, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB). Five years later he was promoted to a Knight Grand Cross of the order (GCB) in the 1902 Coronation Honours list published on 26 June 1902, and was invested by King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 8 August 1902. In February 1905, he was granted an annuity of £3,500 and raised to the peerage as Baron St Helier of St Helier in the Island of Jersey and of Arlington Manor in the County of Berkshire.

Family

On 17 August 1881, Lord St Helier married Susan Mary Elizabeth Stanley, the recently widowed daughter of Keith William Stewart-Mackenzie and Hannah Charlotte Hope-Vere. In 1882, their only child, a son, Francis Jeune, was born; on 19 August 1904, he died of enteric fever in Poona, India. Lord St Helier died the next year, on 9 April 1905, aged 62. As he had no surviving male issue, the barony died with him. Lady St Helier died in January 1931.

References

Francis Jeune, 1st Baron St Helier Wikipedia