"Master of the Supreme Court" Royal Court of Justice in 1911

[Keith Sherwood]

Hi, Everyone,
It's funny what you stumble across when idly looking at Public Member Trees on certain websites...
I always knew that my great-uncle Ronald Gurner had had a childless marriage (m.1919) to a Rosalie Romer.  I had no idea that her father in the 1911 Census for Kensington, London, could describe himself as "Master of the Supreme Court".  Now what exactly was that role?  Would he still have been a presiding judge, or would he have had more of an administrative part to play.  And is this job title still in use today?  And on a more curious and mercenary level, my final question is,  would he have had a handsome salary with which to line his pockets, and to furnish his dwelling place at 14, Oakwood Court?
Many thanks
Keith

[KGarrad]

That court would have been know as The Supreme Court of Judicature until 1981.

There's a wikipedia article about Masters, in a judicary sense, here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_(judiciary)

[stanmapstone]

From The Times, Wednesday, Sep 05, 1917

Stan

[stanmapstone]

The London Gazette, 13 December 1889
Thomas Ansdell Romer, Esq., one of the Chief Clerks in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice.
The London Gazette, 12 August 1913
 Thomas Ansdell Romer, Master of the Supreme Court (acting in Vacation).

Stan

[Keith Sherwood]

Thanks very much for looking that up for me, Keith, and for that information about the 1981 change...
and Stan, this is complete news to me, I had no idea about Rosalie's father's accidental/premature death.
I've mentioned before on a thread elsewhere on here that Great-Uncle Ronnie took his own life in 1939 (probably the lasting effects of being badly wounded in WW1), so an earlier tragedy in Rosalie's life had occurred even before her marriage to him.
My goodness...
Keith
I'm curious now as to whether there was any kind of a coroner's report about the incident, though of course the world had been at war by now for 3 long years

[KGarrad]

Thanks very much for looking that up for me, Keith, and for that information about the 1981 change...

That would be referring to my twin brother, Keith? He's not on RootsChat
In the meantime, I am Kevin . . . and father was Kenneth

[Keith Sherwood]

Oh, ever so sorry, Kevin!
I was convinced you were a Keith like me, having exchanged information with you often in the past on Rootschat.  Just thought that referring to you by your username on here might have sounded a bit clunky...
K

[stanmapstone]

From the Western Morning News - Wednesday 05 September 1917
Stan

[Keith Sherwood]

That's all very sudden and sad, thanks so much for providing this as well, Stan.  One's suspicious mind (probably from watching too many of the surfeit of crime/police dramas on TV at the present time) had me re-reading those recorded events several times.  He seems to have holidayed alone, no mention of his wife Leila Harriette, though strangely enough it does say in that 1911 Census that she was born in Bude, Cornwall.   
Keith
...if it is indeed the same hotel as just over 100 years ago, then the Polurrian Hotel is grandly situated and looks a very nice place today to stay and holiday.  It says it  began as a railway hotel.  I wonder whether they've kept their visitor books all these years..