Shearman, Montague, son of Sir Montague Shearman, Judge of the King's Bench Div., of South Kensington, by Mary Louise, daughter of Job Long, of New York; b. July 17, 1885; adm. Sept. 22, 1898 (R); exhibitioner 1899; Q.S. (non-resident) 1900; left July 1903; Balliol Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1903; B.A. 1907; M.A. 1910; called to the bar at the Inner Temple Nov. 17, 1908; Oxford Circuit; a member of the London County Council 1913-22; served in the R.N.V.R. 1914-5; asst. legal adviser, Foreign Office, July 15, 1919; representative of the Procurator-General on the Contraband Committee in the Foreign Office April 1915 - Dec. 1918; author of The Press Laws of Foreign Countries (1925); O.B.E. June 7, 1918; Claims Adviser to the Foreign Office Oct. 1, 1929; he assembled a magnificent collection of modern pictures and was one of the earliest appreciators in England of Matisse and Utrillo; hon. secretary of the Contemporary Art Society; d. Feb. 4, 1940; unm.