Heber Hart

Heber Leonidas Hart KC (31 March 1865 – 4 February 1948) was an English judge and jurist, particularly noted as an authority on banking law. He specialised in commercial law and, in 1895, published The Law Relating to Auctions; in 1904 he published The Law of Banking (with three reprints: 1906, 1914 and 1931). He wrote polemics against women's suffrage. He was made a King's Counsel in 1913, and Recorder of Ipswich in 1915.

In 1920 Hart was appointed as the British member of the Anglo-German, Anglo-Austrian, Anglo-Bulgarian, and Anglo-Hungarian Mixed Arbitral Tribunals, which had been established as part of the peace treaties at the end of the First World War. The tribunals would resolve cases between British subjects and those from the defeated states, "in circumstances where the legal effects of war would otherwise have denied redress to either side". Heber's role with the tribunals ran until their closure in 1931.

During the 1900 "Khaki" General Election, Hart published official lists of ILC-approved parliamentary candidates in The Times with the first list published on 25th September.

Personal life He lived in one of a pair of houses named The Pines on Putney Hill. Next door lived the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Hart maintained close personal and professional connections within London's legal community. In April 1914, he acted as the best man at the Hammersmith wedding of Gray's Inn solicitor Lewis Walter Taylor of Lewis W. Taylor & Co. to Dora Patterson of Kew.

Hart died of heart disease at his home in Putney, south-west London on 4 February 1948. He was cremated at Putney Vale Cemetery, where his ashes were also interred.