MR. F. H. COLLER
MR. F. H. COLLER
Mr. Frank Herbert Coller, C.B.. formnerlv Chief Justice of St.. Lucia, and later an official of the Ministry of Food both during and after the War, died suddenly at Ardleigh Court, Essex, on Saturday, at the age of 71.
Born at King's Lynn, he was educated at Westminster and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was placed in the first class in Classical Moderations in 1887, and graduated with a first class in Lit. Hii,,i. in -1889. The following year he was president of the Oxford Union. He was called to the Bar bv Lincoln's Inn in June, 1893, and practised on the South Eastern Circuit. Taking up a legal career abroad. he became in 1912 Chief Justice of St. Lucia and Prize Court Judge in 1914. Retuirning to England he served in the Ministry of Food from its inception in 1917 until its cessation in 19'1. and from 1921 to 1925 was Secrctary. Board of Trade (Food Department). In 1924 he was appointed a member of the Royal Commission on Food Prices.
He published in 1916 " Commercial Code of St. Lucia." and in 1926 a book entitled, " A State Trading Adventure." The latter volume wvas the story of food control in and after the War. State trading and State control of trading are supposed to be in the interest of the consumer as against that of the distributor: but that notion was contradicted by the War experienec. according to Mr. Coller, who wrote that ' in a controlled system the comfort of the di,stributor is assured. He becomes. in fact. a sheltered worker, to the consumer's detriment."
Mr. Frank Herbert Coller, C.B.. formnerlv Chief Justice of St.. Lucia, and later an official of the Ministry of Food both during and after the War, died suddenly at Ardleigh Court, Essex, on Saturday, at the age of 71.
Born at King's Lynn, he was educated at Westminster and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was placed in the first class in Classical Moderations in 1887, and graduated with a first class in Lit. Hii,,i. in -1889. The following year he was president of the Oxford Union. He was called to the Bar bv Lincoln's Inn in June, 1893, and practised on the South Eastern Circuit. Taking up a legal career abroad. he became in 1912 Chief Justice of St. Lucia and Prize Court Judge in 1914. Retuirning to England he served in the Ministry of Food from its inception in 1917 until its cessation in 19'1. and from 1921 to 1925 was Secrctary. Board of Trade (Food Department). In 1924 he was appointed a member of the Royal Commission on Food Prices.
He published in 1916 " Commercial Code of St. Lucia." and in 1926 a book entitled, " A State Trading Adventure." The latter volume wvas the story of food control in and after the War. State trading and State control of trading are supposed to...
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