Cyril Salmon, Baron Salmon

Cyril Barnet Salmon, Baron Salmon, (28 December 1903 – 7 November 1991) was a British judge.

Early life and career Salmon was the son of Montagu Salmon (1878–1943), tobacco merchant, and Marian Nina Trevor, née Abrahams, his wife. He was the grandson of Barnett Salmon (1829–1897) co-founder of Salmon & Gluckstein, tobacco merchants. He was educated at Mill Hill School and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he read Law. In 1964, he was made a Lord Justice of Appeal and sworn of the Privy Council. On 10 January 1972, he was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, being created, at the same time, a life peer with the title Baron Salmon, of Sandwich in the County of Kent. He presided over the trials of the leaders of the 1958 Notting Hill race riots, sentencing the white youths who led the riots to 5 years in jail. This exemplary sentencing had the effect of preventing further trouble in the area.

Personal life On 25 July 1929, Salmon married Rencie Vanderfelt (d. 1942), the daughter of Sydney Gorton Vanderfelt, and they had two children, Gai Rencie Salmon (b. 1933) and David Neville Cyril Salmon (b. 1935).