To record data about the social backgrounds, legal training and governmental and non-governmental careers of all judges serving in the higher British judiciary from the time of the judicial reforms of 1876 through the calendar year 1972. Variables Details of marriage, schooling, university, degrees obtained, honours and decorations received, career history, club membership, military service, recreations, publications. Political office and affiliation, administrative offices held, highest judicial office held. Whether listed in standard biographical dictionaries (<i>Who's Who</i>, <i>Dictionary of National Biography</i>, <i>Burke's Peerage</i>, <i>Burke's Landed Gentry</i>). Date of birth and death, region, birthplace (size of town). Whether father listed in standard biographical dictionaries. Whether father titled, knighted or had done military service (rank). Father's occupation and education. Whether father had ever held elective, administrative or judicial office. Whether grandfather was ever a judge.