Denis Orde

Denis Orde served as an Army Officer during National Service and then in the Territorial Army. He read Law at Oxford University and was called to the Bar in 1956 as a prizeman of the Inner Temple and then spent twenty-three years in practice as a Barrister. There followed twenty-two years as a vis mere Crown Court Judge, fifteen of them as the Presiding Judge, of a Crown Court. He remains a Master of the Bench at the Inner Temple. He is the author of the acclaimed Nelson's Mediterranean Command (1997) and a contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography and to several magazines. Denis Orde lives with his wife in a Georgian country house in his native Northumberland and in Oxford. He has enjoyed a life-long interest in cricket as well as naval history and biography. vis mindre