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| rdfs:label | - John Rolleston Lort-Williams
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| rdfs:comment | - Sir John Rolleston Lort Williams (14 September 1881 – 9 June 1966) was a judge and Conservative Party politician. The only son of solicitor Charles William Williams, he was born in Walsall in the Black Country of Staffordshire as John Rolleston Williams. He was educated at Merchant Taylors School and the University of London. In 1902 he adopted the surname Lort-Williams. In 1904 he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn. He made two attempts to win a parliamentary seat for the Conservatives at Pembrokeshire at the 1906 general election and at a byelection in 1908, without success.
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| abstract | - Sir John Rolleston Lort Williams (14 September 1881 – 9 June 1966) was a judge and Conservative Party politician. The only son of solicitor Charles William Williams, he was born in Walsall in the Black Country of Staffordshire as John Rolleston Williams. He was educated at Merchant Taylors School and the University of London. In 1902 he adopted the surname Lort-Williams. In 1904 he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn. He made two attempts to win a parliamentary seat for the Conservatives at Pembrokeshire at the 1906 general election and at a byelection in 1908, without success. From 1907-10 he sat as a Municipal Reform Party member of the London County Council representing Tower Hamlets (Limehouse). At the 1918 general election he won a seat to become member of parliament for Bermondsey, Rotherhithe. He held the seat at the 1922 general election but was defeated when a further election was held in 1923. He resumed his legal career:in 1922 he "took silk" to become a King's Counsel, and held the judiciall posts of Recorder of West Bromwich from 1923–24 and Recorder of Walsall from 1924-28. In 1927 he was appointed a Puisne Judge of the High Court of Fort William, Calcutta (now Kolkata), Bengal, India. He held the post until retirement 1941 and was knighted in 1936. He died at his Worcestershire home, aged 84.
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