biography
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Shawcross (of Friston), Hartley William Shawcross, Baron
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| lived:
| (1902– )
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| biography:
| Jurist, born in Giessen, WC Germany. He studied at Dulwich College, was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1925, and lectured at Liverpool University (1927–34). After World War 2, he was attorney general (1945–51) and President of the Board of Trade (1951). He established an international legal reputation as chief British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (1945–6), led the investigations of the Lynskey Tribunal (1948), and prosecuted in the Fuchs atom spy case (1950). He was knighted in 1945. He resigned his parliamentary seat in 1958, and was created a life peer in 1959. In 1995 he published his autobiography, Life Sentence: The Memoirs of Hartley Shawcross. |
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