After leaving ministerial office Inskip served as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 1940 until 1946. As of , he remains the last Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales to have held a ministerial office before his appointment. Inskip was referred to in the book Guilty Men by Michael Foot, Frank Owen and Peter Howard (writing under the pseudonym 'Cato'), published in 1940 as an attack on public figures for their failure to re-arm and their appeasement of Nazi Germany. Family Lord Caldecote married Lady Augusta Helen Elizabeth, daughter of David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow and widow of Charles Lindsay Orr-Ewing, in 1914. He died in October 1947, aged 71, and was succeeded by his son, Robert (Robin) Andrew in the viscountcy. Lady Caldecote died in May 1967, aged 90. Arms References External links The Diaries of 1st Lord Caldecote held at Churchill Archives Centre 1876 births 1947 deaths Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Attorneys General for England and Wales British Secretaries of State for Dominion Affairs Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Inskip, Thomas English Anglicans English King's Counsel English lawyers Foreign Office personnel of World War II Knights Bachelor Law lords Leaders of the House of Lords Lord chancellors of Great Britain Lord chief justices of England and Wales Members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Ministers in the Chamberlain peacetime government, 1937–1939 Ministers in the Chamberlain wartime government, 1939–1940 Ministers in the Churchill wartime government, 1940–1945 Viscounts created by George VI People educated at Clifton College Solicitors General for England and Wales Inskip, Thomas Inskip, Thomas Inskip, Thomas Inskip, Thomas Inskip, Thomas Inskip, Thomas Inskip, Thomas UK MPs who were granted peerages Viscounts Caldecote