A link of a quarter of a century

is severed by the loss to Bideford of its Quarter Session and Commission of the Peace for, during the whole of that time, the Recordership of Bideford and Barnstaple has been held by Mr Wilfred Barnard Faraday, who now lives at Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.

Born in 1874, Mr Faraday is the son of the late Mr F J Faraday, Commercial editor of the Manchester Guardian. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and at the College of Technology and at Manchester University where he gained his LLB in 1897. In the following year he gained the Lee Prize and two years later was called to the Bar.

In 1902 he was appointed hon. Secretary to the Tarriff Reform League for Lancashire and was Economic Tutor of the Anti-Socialist Union from 1909-12. From 1914-16 he served as a Leiutenant in the 5th Battalion of the York and Lancaster Regiment and from 1917-19 was secretary of the Royal Aeronautical Society. During the same period he was editor of the Aeronautical Journal. He was appointed a member of the Civil Aerial Transport Commission in 1917.

In 1922 he stood as Conservative for the combined English Universities and twice contested the Attercliffe Division of Sheffield in 1924 and 1929.

Mr Faraday is standing Counsel to the National Union of Manufacturers. He has had a number of works on economic and aeronautical subjects published.

As recreation from his legal work, Mr Faraday enjoys sketching, walking, fishing and gardening.

Gazette article dated 16 February 1951