biography
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Birkett (of Ulverston), (William) Norman Birkett, Baron
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| (1883–1962)
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| biography:
| Lawyer and politician, born in Ulverston, Cumbria, NW England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, was called to the bar (1913), and earned a brilliant reputation as counsel in notable murder trials. He was a Liberal MP (1923–4, 1929–31). A judge of the King's Bench Division (1941-50), he figured prominently in the summing up of the Nuremberg Trials (1945–6). A lord justice of appeal (1950–7), he was raised to the peerage in 1958. |
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