Sidney Noakes

Sidney Henry Noakes (6 January 1905 –February 1993) was a British lawyer.

Noakes was the second of three children born to Thomas Frederick and Ada Noakes. Noakes was raised by foster parents after the death of his parents. He was educated at Merchant Taylor's School, Hertfordshire, where he excelled academically and was accepted to study law at St John's College, Oxford in 1925. Noakes was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1928 following graduation. Noakes was part of the Security Service (MI5) during the Second World War as well as serving with the Intelligence Corps, having been commissioned in 1943. Noakes rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Intelligence Corps.

Noakes had a long legal career and eventually became a Judge, serving in the County Courts circuits in Surrey, Hertfordshire and Kent in the 1960s.

Noakes was briefly married, and had a daughter. Noakes spent his retirement in Hove, and died there in 1993.

Noakes was the author of the second edition of Butterworth's digest of leading cases on workmen's compensation and Six Vital Acts of 1938.