High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Claud Schuster, 1st Baron Schuster, GCB, CVO, KC (22 August 1869 – 28 June 1956) was a British barrister and civil servant noted for his long tenure as Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor`s Office. Born to a middle-class Mancunian family, Schuster was educated at St. George`s School, Ascot and Winchester College before matriculating at New College, Oxford in 1888 to study history. After graduation he joined the Inner Temple with the aim of becoming a barrister, and was called to the Bar in 1895. Practising in Liverpool, Schuster was not noted as a particularly successful barrister, and he joined Her Majesty`s Civil Service in 1899 as secretary to the Chief Commissioner of the Local Government Act Commission.