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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Pioneering human rights advocate John Lilburne dies
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Parliament debates Jersey’s treatment of prisoners of war
- A Conservative MP in London was concerned that Jersey might have been treating German PoWs too leniently during the First World War.
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Jersey plane makes bomb threat detour
- Thirty passengers on their way to Jersey strapped themselves in as their aircraft performed an about turn in mid-air
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Man sentenced to hang for murder
- A 27-year-old man was sentenced to be hanged after he pleaded guilty to murder, but his sentence was commuted.
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