1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Jelf, Sir Arthur Richard
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JELF, SIR ARTHUR RICHARD (1837-1917), English judge, was born at Pankow, near Berlin, Sept. 10 1837, the son of the Rev. Richard William Jelf, principal of King's College, London, by his wife Countess Emmy Schlippenbach, at one time maid of honour to the Queen of Hanover. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1860. He was called to the bar in 1863, and became a Q.C. in 1880. From 1879 to 1901 he was recorder of Shrewsbury, and in 1901 was raised to the bench, retiring in 1910. He died at Putney July 24 1917.