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| rdfs:comment | - James Fenning Torr (1845-6 June 1915) was a barrister and local politician. The eldest son of John Berry Torr QC and his wife Annie née Swinburne, he was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford and was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1873. Torr resigned from the county council on 18 June 1895 following his appointment the Recorder of the Borough of Deal in Kent. He held the post for ten years before becoming Recorder of Hastings in 1905. He died in London in June 1915, aged 70.
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| abstract | - James Fenning Torr (1845-6 June 1915) was a barrister and local politician. The eldest son of John Berry Torr QC and his wife Annie née Swinburne, he was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford and was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1873. When the first London County Council elections were scheduled for January 1889, Torr was approached to be a candidate. He was duly elected as one of two Progressive Party councillors representing Bethnal Green North East. He was re-elected in 1892 and 1895. In 1893 he married Beatrice Ettie de Jersey Moore, daughter of the Reverend Thomas Moore. The couple had two children. Torr resigned from the county council on 18 June 1895 following his appointment the Recorder of the Borough of Deal in Kent. He held the post for ten years before becoming Recorder of Hastings in 1905. He died in London in June 1915, aged 70.
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