Arthur Salter (judge)

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Sir Arthur Salter

| office = Justice of the High Court

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1859|10|30|df=y}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1928|11|30|1859|10|30|df=y}}

| termstart = 1917

| termend = 30 November 1928

| office1 = Member of Parliament
for Basingstoke

| termstart1 = 1906

| termend1 = 1917

| predecessor1 = Arthur Frederick Jeffreys

| successor1 = Auckland Geddes

| predecessor = Sir Frederick Low

| successor = Sir Malcolm Macnaghten

| birth_name = Arthur Clavell Salter

| image = File:Sir Arthur Clavell Salter.jpg

| caption = Salter in 1909

}}

Sir Arthur Clavell Salter (30 October 1859 – 30 November 1928) was a British Conservative Party politician and judge who sat on the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice.

Early life and education

Born to Dr Henry Hyde Salter, FRS (1823–71) and his wife Henrietta, Salter was educated at Wimborne Grammar School and King's College London, where he studied arts and law. He married Mary Dorothea (d. 1917) in 1894, daughter of Major J. H. Lloyd. Him and Mary had a daughter and a son, 2nd Lieutenant John Henry Clavell Salter, who was killed in action in World War 1 in 1918.{{cite web |title=Record search |url=https://londonwarmemorial.co.uk/search_results.php?offset=1170&sort=&a=Westminster&f=First%20Name&s=Last%20Name&r=Rank&u=Unit&d=Date%20Of%20Death |website=WW1 War Memorial London |access-date=18 July 2022}} After Mary's death, he married Nora Constance, of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Heathcote Ouchterloney.{{cite journal |title=Obituary. Mr Justice Salter |journal=The Solicitors Journal |date=8 December 1928 |volume=72 |issue=49 |page=821}}

Career

He was called to the Bar in 1885 by the Middle Temple, and joined the western circuit in the following year. He became a King's Counsel in 1904 and was elected as a Member of Parliament for Basingstoke in 1906, where he sat until his appointment as a High Court Judge in 1917, and sat on the Kings Bench Division. He also served as the Recorder of Poole from 1904 to 1917. During his tenure, he sat on a number of high-profile cases such as that of Horatio Bottomley in 1922, an MP. He served on the High Court until his death on 30 November 1928.{{cite ODNB|url=http://oxforddnb.com/view/article/35918?docPos=2|title=Oxford DNB article: Salter, Sir Arthur Clavell|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/35918|access-date=2023-02-22}}{{cite book |title=Who's Who 1925 |date=1925 |publisher=A & C Black}}{{cite web |title=Sir Arthur Clavell Salter (1859 - 1928) |url=https://www.commercialcourt.london/ac-salter |website=The Commercial Court of England & Wales |access-date=18 July 2022}}