{{Short description|British judge}} {{for|the British merchant and industrialist|Edward Cazalet (merchant)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}} {{Infobox person | image = | image_size = | name = Sir Edward Cazalet | honorific_suffix = DL | caption = | birth_name = Edward Stephen Cazalet | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1936|4|26|df=y}}<ref name="burke">{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |editor-link=Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page= 738|ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}}</ref> | birth_place = Marylebone, London, England | death_date = | death_place = | education = Eton<br> Christ Church, Oxford | occupation = Barrister and judge | known for = | spouse = Hon. Camilla Jane Gage | parents = Peter Cazalet<br/> Leonora Wodehouse | children = 3, including Hal Cazalet and Lara Cazalet | relatives = P. G. Wodehouse<br/> Henry Gage, 6th Viscount Gage (father-in-law) | website = }}
'''Sir Edward Stephen Cazalet''' DL (born 26 April 1936) is a retired judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
==Early life== Edward Cazalet was born in 1936, the son of the Queen Mother's racehorse trainer Peter Cazalet and Leonora Wodehouse, the stepdaughter of P. G. Wodehouse.<ref name=Shawcross2013>{{cite book|author=William Shawcross|title=Queen Mother: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother:|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aUctAAAAQBAJ&pg=PR61|access-date=16 August 2015|date=4 August 2013|publisher=Pan Macmillan|isbn=978-1-4472-5588-8|page=61}}</ref> The Cazalet family descended from French Huguenots.<ref name="Cazalet Family Papers, MS 917">{{cite web |title=Cazalet Family Papers, MS 917 |url=https://catalogue.etoncollege.com/ms-917 |website=Catalogs Online Collection |publisher=Eton College |access-date=11 June 2021}}</ref> Cazalet was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he was master of the university drag hounds.<ref name="burke"/> His friends included Sir Simon Hornby, who would later marry his sister, Sheran.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/finance-obituaries/7915229/Sir-Simon-Hornby.html |title=Sir Simon Hornby |publisher=Telegraph |access-date=3 January 2017}}</ref>
==Career== Cazalet is a barrister, High Court judge and an authority on P. G. Wodehouse.<ref name=Shawcross2013 /> He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1980.<ref>{{cite journal |title=State Intelligence: Crown Office |journal=The London Gazette |date=17 April 1985 |page=5735 |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/48159/page/5735/data.pdf |access-date=1 October 2021}}</ref> Cazalet is the principal trustee of Wodehouse's estate, and in 2016, was "delighted" when the British Library acquired the Wodehouse archive in 2016.<ref>{{cite news|author=Robert McCrum |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/27/pg-wodehouse-archive-british-library-redemption-nazi-collaboration |title=PG Wodehouse secures redemption as British Library acquires priceless archive | Books |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=3 January 2017}}</ref> He is a member of The Other Club, a London dining club.
==Personal life== He is married to the Honourable Camilla Jane Gage, daughter of Henry Gage, 6th Viscount Gage<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp91520/camilla-jane-nee-gage-lady-cazalet |title=Camilla Jane (née Gage), Lady Cazalet - Person - National Portrait Gallery |website=Npg.org.uk |date=26 December 2016 |access-date=3 January 2017}}</ref> and they have children: * David Benedict Cazalet (born 24 June 1967) * Henry Pelham Cazalet (born 16 September 1969), opera singer * Lara Cazalet (born 1973), actress
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