Part 1 - Memorandum - All saints Church: Burnhams Sutton & Elph

1978: Writing to Bishop Clark about legal matters associated with All Saints, Burnham Market

Judge Adrian Herbert Head was born on December 4, 1923 in York and moved to Burnham Overy Staithe in 1929, aged five, with his mother Geraldine and brother Henry. His father, George, who was a county court judge in York and from a Quaker family in Ipswich, died in 1927.
In 1937 he became a cadet at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth. He went to Oxford in 1941 and took an honours degree in Modern Languages (French and German) at Magdalen. 1947 he was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn, London, and practised international and commercial law.
In 1959 he moved back to Burnham Overy Staithe. During the 1950s and 1960s he attended quarter sessions at King’s Lynn Town Hall. He was a director of Norfolk Lavender between 1953 and 1971 and for many years was chairman. He served as deputy chairman of Agricultural Land Tribunals in the Eastern region between 1966 and 1971.
In January 1972, Judge Head was made a circuit judge and sat in county courts across Norfolk. He retired in 1996.