Florence Baron
British judge
Dame Florence Jacqueline Baron (7 October 1952 – 9 December 2013), judicially styled The Hon. Mrs Justice Baron, was a British barrister and High Court Judge.
Early life and education
Baron was born to Owsiej ("Jose") and Ellen Elizabeth Baron in Kingsbury, London. The family emigrated to the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland a couple of years later and remained there until 1960 when they returned to London, then Jersey.
Baron was educated at Jersey College for Girls. She studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics and then law (changing subject after her first year) at St Hugh's College, Oxford. As an undergraduate she met her lifelong partner, John Pringle Nodwell Tonna, whom she did not marry until 29 January 2013 after she was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer.
Legal career
Barrister
Baron was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1976 and became a QC in 1995. She specialised in matrimonial finance law at Queen Elizabeth Building (QEB) chambers, becoming the head of the chambers in 2000.
In 1997, she was described by The Lawyer magazine as "such a star, she is just excellent, and rated the highest.
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