Question: When was English lawyer and judge who delivered judgment in Candler v Crane, Christmas & Co became judge
Context: Alfred Thompson "Tom" Denning, Baron Denning, (23 January 1899 – 5 March 1999) was an English lawyer and judge who has been called "the greatest judge of the century" and "probably the greatest English judge of modern times".  Called to the bar in 1923 as a barrister he became a King's Counsel in 1938.  Denning became a judge in 1944 with an appointment to the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice and was made a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1948 after less than five years in the High Court.  He became a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in 1957 and after five years in the House of Lords returned to the Court of Appeal as Master of the Rolls in 1962, a position he held for twenty years.  In retirement he wrote several books and continued to offer opinions on the state of the common law through his writing and his position in the House of Lords. Candler v Crane, Christmas & Co [1951] 2 KB 164 is an English tort law case.  In it, Denning LJ delivered an important dissenting judgment, arguing for a duty of care for negligent statements.  This was later upheld in "Hedley Byrne v Heller & Partners Ltd" [1963] 2 All ER 575 by the House of Lords. Sir Charles Antony St John Gray {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 6 July 1942) is a retired British barrister and judge (Mr Justice Gray), who specialised in intellectual property, copyright, privacy and defamation cases.  As a judge, he presided over the trial of David Irving's libel lawsuit against Professor Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books over claims that Irving was a Holocaust denier; Gray delivered judgment against Irving. In Billiton Aluminium v Khanyile, an important case in South African law, the Constitutional Court delivered judgment in an application for leave to appeal an order of the Labour Appeal Court.  The order appealed against was one which restored an arbitration award granting reinstatement of the employee (the respondent in this matter) retrospective to the date of his dismissal in 2001. Coetzee v Government of the Republic of South Africa; Matiso and Others v Commanding Officer, Port Elizabeth Prison, and Others is an important case in South African law, with an especial bearing on civil procedure and constitutional law.  It concerned the constitutional validity of certain provisions of the Magistrates' Courts Act.  It was heard, March 6, 1995, in the Constitutional Court by Chaskalson P, Mahomed DP, Ackermann J, Didcott J, Kentridge AJ, Kriegler J, Langa J, Madala J, Mokgoro J, O'Regan J and Sachs J.  They delivered judgment on September 22.  The applicant's attorneys were the Legal Resources Centres of Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg.  Attorneys for the first and second respondents in the Coetzee application were the State Attorneys of Cape Town and Johannesburg, and Du Plessis & Eksteen for the Association of Law Societies.  IMS Navsa SC (with him L. Mpati) appeared for the applicants in both matters, D. Potgieter for the first and second respondents in the Coetzee matter, and JC du Plessis for the Association of Law Societies (as "amicus curiae"). Butters v Mncora is an important recent case in South African law, especially with respect to universal partnerships.  An appeal against a decision in the Eastern Cape High Court, Port Elizabeth, by Chetty J, it was heard in the Supreme Court of Appeal by Brand JA, Heher JA, Cachalia JA, Mhlantla JA and Tshiqi JA on March 8, 2012.  They delivered judgment on March 28, 2012.  JJ Gauntlett SC (with RG Buchanan SC) appeared for the appellant, and A. Beyleveld SC (with NJ Mullins) for the respondent. Chartaprops 16 (Pty) Ltd and Another v Silberman is an important case in the South African law of agency.  It was heard in the Supreme Court Of Appeal by Scott JA, Nugent JA, Ponnan JA, Maya JA and Leach AJA on May 14, 2008.  They delivered judgment on September 25.  The case was an appeal from a decision in the Witwatersrand Local Division by Boruchowitz J. Preston White Campbell (January 24, 1874 – July 2, 1954) was a Virginia lawyer who served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.  Born in Abingdon, Virginia, he was educated by tutors and at the Abingdon Male Academy.  He read law in the office of Francis B. Hutton, later a circuit judge, and after being admitted to the bar, attended the University of Virginia for further study under Professor John B. Minor.  He began practice in Abingdon and was the youngest member of the Constitutional Convention of 1901-02.  In 1911, he became Commonwealth’s Attorney of Washington County, Virginia and served until 1914 when he became judge of the Twenty-Third Circuit Court.  When Judge Joseph L. Kelly retired in 1924, Judge Campbell was elected to the Supreme Court of Appeals and, in 1931, became Chief Justice.  He retired from the court in 1946. ABSA Bank Ltd v Sweet and Others is an important case in the law of contract in South Africa.  It was heard in the Cape Provincial Division May 12, 1992, by Tebbutt J, who delivered judgment on June 19. Sir Thomas Trevor (6 July 1586 – 21 December 1656) was an English lawyer, judge and Member of Parliament, most notable for having delivered the judgment against John Hampden in the Ship Money case.
Answer: in 1944