Reginald Acland

He was the sixth son of Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, 1st Baronet, and his wife Sarah Cotton, eldest daughter of William Cotton.[2] His younger brother was Alfred Dyke Acland.[2] He was educated at Winchester College and then at University College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1878 and Master of Arts five year later.[3]

In 1881, Acland was called to the bar by the Inner Temple and worked as barrister-at-law.[3] He became junior counsel to the Admiralty in 1897 and subsequently was appointed Judge Advocate of the Fleet in 1904.[4] Acland was appointed Recorder of Shrewsbury in November 1901,[5][6] a post he held for the next two years.[3] He then served as Recorder of Oxford until his death in 1924.[3]

He was nominated a King's Counsel in 1904 and acted as counsel for Great Britain at the North Sea Commission in Paris in the following year.[3] In 1913, he was elected a member of the Royal Commission for Legal Delay and became a Bencher.[3] A year later, he was created a Knight Bachelor.[7] Acland sat in the General Council of the Bar and was treasurer of the Barristers' Benevolent Association.[4] He was Justice of the Peace for Berkshire and chaired the London Hospital Saturday Fund.[4]

On 12 August 1885, Acland married Helen Emma Fox, daughter of Reverend Thomas Fox, and had by her four children, two sons and two daughters.[1] The family lived at Thirtover in the village of Cold Ash, West Berkshire, where the Acland Memorial Hall was built on land donated to the village by the Acland family.

• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Prisoners of War" . Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company.