Royal Warrant - For Letters Patent Confirming the Appointment of HM Solicitor General [1936-04-02]

Royal Warrant - For Letters Patent Confirming the Appointment of HM Solicitor General [1936-04-02]

Great Seal

Ministerial Appointments

Royal Warrant of King Edward VIII directing the Lord Chancellor to pass Letters Patent under the Great Seal confirming the appointment of Terence O'Connor as HM Solicitor General.

King Edward VIII

C 83/488

1936-04-02

D. Bogdanovic

(Sgd.) Edward RI

Our will and pleasure is that this pass by immediate Warrant

(Ten-Shilling stamp)

Edward the Eighth by the Grace of God

of Great Britain Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas King Defender of the Faith TO All to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Whereas His late Majesty King George the Fifth did by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal bearing date at Westminster the second day of October in the twenty-fourth year of His Reign constitute and appoint Our trusty and well beloved Sir Donald Bradley Somervell Knight Officer of Our Most Excellent Order of the British Empire one of Our Counsel learned in the Law to be His Majesty’s Solicitor General during pleasure Now Know Ye that We by these Presents do revoke the said Letters Patent And Further Know Ye that We of Our especial grace Do constitute and appoint Our trusty and well beloved TERENCE JAMES O’CONNOR Esquire one of Our Counsel learned in the Law to be Our Solicitor General during Our pleasure together with all salaries fees authorities and advantages due and of right belonging thereto     

IN WITNESS &c., WITNESS &c.

 

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

This contains Your Majesty’s Grant of the Office of Your Majesty’s Solicitor General unto Terence James O’Connor, Esquire, K. C.

Prepared by order of the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain

Received the 2nd day
of April, 1936.

(Sgd.) Hailsham
C

Douglas, 1st Viscount Hailsham (Lord Chancellor)

Black and white Lesser Royal Arms in between "Edward the Eighth" and "by the Grace of God". Royal name is in Carolingian-inspired typeface.

Document is a pre-printed template. Text of the patent is typewritten.