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15 Denning L.J. 1 (2000)

handle is hein.journals/denlj15 and id is 1 raw text is: ADDRESS AT THE SERVICE OF THANKSGIVING FOR THE RT. HON. LORD DENNING, O.M.* The Rt.Hon. Lord Bingham of Cornhill* Lord Denning is the best known-known and best-loved judge in the whole of our history. There have over the centuries been judges of strong character, powerful intellect, great learning, courage, wisdom, compassion, eloquence, robust commonsense. All these qualities Lord Denning had in abundance. But he had something more: a unique gift of human warmth which endeared him to everyone who knew him and many who did not. The story of Lord Denning's upbringing in Whitchurch, with his parents, his sister and his four brothers, has been so vividly and movingly told by him that it is familiar to us all. But one thing in particular is striking. Throughout his long life he remained unfailingly true to the values, beliefs, habits and tastes of his early years. He was a devoted member of the Anglican Church, loving its worship, liturgy and language. He answered to an unbending sense of duty. He had an indefatigable capacity and inexhaustible relish for hard work. He had a love of his country both deep and proud. He had a passionate love of the English countryside, particularly the chalk uplands of North Hampshire and the magical valley of the Test. He felt an instinctive respect for the continuity of our institutions and traditions and for authority, if not always for the authorities. He practised the virtues of thrift, sobriety and plain living. He had an unaffected simplicity of speech and bearing. He believed, profoundly, in the brotherhood of man and the worth of individual human beings. He was contemptuous of the fugitive, the trivial and the mean. The late Victorian principles by which he governed his life are unfashionable today; and it is not surprising that his lifelong adherence to them should have given ammunition to his critics in a later and more permissive age. Westminster Abbey, Thursday, 17'h June, 1999. Then, the Lord Chief Justice of England & Wales, presently the Senior Law Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.

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