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
ITV broadcasts final episode of Island at War
- Island at War was a tale of life in the occupied Channel Islands. Taking inspiration from real-life events, it was set on a fictional island.
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Artist Edmund Blampied dies
- Artist Edmund Blampied is remembered for designing a subversive banknote for use in Jersey during the occupation.
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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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Nude sunbathers sentenced to eight days’ hard labour
- Two girls were fined £3 and sentenced to eight days' hard labour after they stripped off on a Jersey beach.
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