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The Lord Chief Justice's determination to die in harness has

been expressed more than once, and the death of his close friend Sir Horace Avory while still in active work as a High Court Judge will no doubt strengthen it; The inference is confirmed by a sentence in the Lord Chief's article on the Irish Treaty in Tuesday's Daily Telegraph regarding Sir William Muloch, Chief Justice of Ontario—" who may be said to set an example to all Chief Justices by sitting in Court regularly at the discreet age of 91.". Lord Hewart became Lord Chief Justice of England in 1922 at the age of 52.