5th August 1880
Law Lord who oversaw Channel Island refugees is born
Born in St Helier and educated at Oxford, Herbert du Parcq was admitted to the Jersey Bar in 1906 and became King’s Counsel two decades later. He was knighted in the 1930s and, as Baron du Parcq of Grouville, became a life peer following the Second World War. During the war he had chaired the Channel Islands Refugees Committee to raise funds for islanders who found themselves evacuated to the mainland in advance of the occupation.
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Other events that occured in August
Jersey’s military government is dissolved
- The Channel Islands’ political recovery from the Occupation of the Second World War was swift, even if the physical scars remain.
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Boy falls into Jersey Zoo gorilla enclosure
- Jambo, a 25 stone gorilla, protected a five year old boy who had fallen into his enclosure from the other apes.
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Jersey men are permitted to marry their dead wives’ sisters
- Differences of opinion between the British and Jersey legal systems means some marriages may not be entirely legal.
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Pilot killed in private plane crash
- A pilot was killed when both engines of the plane he was flying from Jersey to Guernsey lost power and he crashed into an outbuilding.
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