Henry Maddocks

Sir Henry Maddocks KC (26 April 1871 — 9 June 1931) was an English lawyer and British Conservative Party politician.

Early life He was son of William Maddocks of Prees, Shropshire and educated at Wem Grammar School.

Legal career He was articled to a solicitor in the Staffordshire Potteries, qualifying as solicitor himself in 1893. For a time he was managing clerk at a practice in Birmingham and another in Coventry which he later took over. He also concurrently served as clerk to the magistrates of Coleshill Petty Sessions. passing his Bar final exams with first-class honours and coming first in his class in criminal law. He practiced on the Midland judicial circuit until well after taking Silk in 1920 and moving to London.

In the years following World War I, in which one of his sons was killed, Maddocks had a reputation as an advocate for disabled ex-servicemen, and was an early member of the Imperial War Graves Commission. He once proposed that convicted criminals who were subsequently killed while serving in the armed forces should have their conviction records erased. and re-elected in 1922. Maddocks did not stand for Parliament again.

Personal life Maddocks married in 1895, Elsie Mary, daughter of John Anslow of Coventry, by whom he had six sons. Captain Henry Hollingdrake Maddocks was awarded the Military Cross and Lt. John Anslow Maddocks was killed in the First World War. one of which William Michael Maddocks went on to become High Sheriff of Warwickshire for 1963. Maddocks, whose last home was at "Wytheford", Sandy Lodge, Northwood, Middlesex,