biography
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Kilmuir, David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of
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pronunciation:
[kilmyoor]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1900–67)
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| biography:
| British statesman and jurist, born in Aberdeen, NE Scotland, UK. He studied at Edinburgh and Oxford, and became the youngest KC since the time of Charles II in 1934. He sat in the House of Commons (1935–54), was home secretary and minister for Welsh affairs in the 1951 government, and was appointed Lord Chancellor in 1954. He was deputy chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trial of the principal Nazi war criminals. He was knighted in 1942, made a viscount 1954, and created an earl and Baron Fyfe of Dornoch in 1962. |
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