Simon Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood

Simon Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood

Simon Denis Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, PC (born 9 April 1937) is a British judge and former barrister.

The son of Denis Baer Brown and Edna Elizabeth Abrahams, he was educated in Stowe School, Buckingham. Brown served in the Royal Artillery from 1955 to 1957 and reached the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. He graduated from Worcester College, Oxford and was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1961.

From 1979 to 1984, Brown was a Recorder and First Junior Treasury Counsel (Common Law), and from 1984 to 1992 a High Court Judge (as Mr Justice Simon Brown), assigned to the Queen's Bench Division and knighted on appointment. He became a Lord Justice of Appeal (as Lord Justice Simon Brown) in 1992 and was made a Privy Counsellor in the same year.

In 2004, Brown became a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, a life peer with the title Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood. [cite web | url= http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200304/minutes/040113/ldminute.htm| title= Announcement of his introduction at the House of Lords| author= House of Lords| date= 2004-01-13| work= minutes of proceedings| accessdate= 2006-11-05]

He has been married to Jennifer Buddicom since 31 May 1963; they have two sons and one daughter.

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*cite web | url= http://www.thepeerage.com/p15173.htm#i151726| title= thePeerage| accessdate= 2006-11-05
*cite web | url= http://www.dodonline.co.uk/engine.asp?lev1=4&lev2=38&menu=81&biog=y&id=26870| title= DodOnline| accessdate= 2006-11-05


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