GRANTHAM, SIR WILLIAM English judge, was born at Lewes, on Oct. 23, 183 5. After a successful career at the bar and as a Conservative member of parliament (1874-85), he was appointed in 1885 judge of the Queen's Bench division of the High • Court. He never concealed his own political views, and after 1906, when he was on the rota of judges for election petitions, his decisions were sharply criticized as biased against the Liberal party, notably in the Great Yar mouth case, which led to a motion of censure in the House of Commons in July 1906. Grantham was a great criminal lawyer, and in the Adolf Beck trial he was one of the first to suspect the mistake as to the prisoner's identity. He died in London on Nov. 3o, 1911.