Identity area
Reference code
JCPP/Fitch
Title
Cecil Fitch
Date(s)
- 1888 - 1893 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
Context area
Name of creator
(13 October 1870 - 28 September 1940)
Biographical history
Born on 13 October 1870 in London. Second son of Edwin Frederick, of Frognal Priory, N.W. London.
Attended Mill Hill School.
Was admitted to Jesus College aged 18 in October 1889.
B.A. and LL.B. 1892; M.A. 1896.
Rugby Blue, 1889.
Called to the Bar, Middle Temple, 8 May 1895.
Served in the First World War as a Major in the Worcestershire Regiment; Lieutenant.-Colonel, R. Welsh Fusiliers; Chevalier of Legion of Honour.
K.B.E., 1920, for recruiting services.
Member of Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors.
Examiner, Lord Bryce's Commission on Belgian Atrocities.
Of Possingworth, Cross-in-hand, Sussex, in 1926.
Lived latterly at Gordon Dene, Princes Way, London, S.W.
Died 28 September 1940, at Culls, near Stroud, Gloucs.