About Francis Ferris
Lived 1932 – 2018 (aged 85). Francis Ferris was a British judge and rower.
Sir Francis Mursell Ferris, TD (19 August 1932 – 26 March 2018) was a British High Court Judge.
Francis Ferris was the son of Francis William Ferris and Elsie Lilian May Ferris (née Mursell). He was a High Court Judge (Chancery Division) from 1990 to 2003 and was a Queen's Counsel. He was appointed as an Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, in 2000.
Ferris was an amateur rower and the only person to be successively Captain (1957), Chairman (1971–1986), and President (1992–2007) of the Marlow Rowing Club at Marlow, Buckinghamshire on the River Thames.
Francis Ferris married Sheila Elizabeth Hester Falloon Bedford in 1957 and had four children. He was knighted in 1990.
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Who was Francis Ferris?
British High Court Judge (1932-2018)
When was Francis Ferris born?
Francis Ferris was born on 19 August 1932.
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Francis Ferris died on 26 March 2018.
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Francis Ferris was a judge and rower.
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Francis Ferris was British.
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