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    David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, GCVO, PC (29 May 1900 – 27 January 1967), known as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe from 1942 to 1954 and as Viscount...
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  • Irish drummer Fyfe Robertson (1902–1987), Scottish television journalist David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir (1900–1967) Iain Fyfe (born 1982), Australian...
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  • Hermann Göring Michael Shannon as Robert H. Jackson Richard E. Grant as David Maxwell Fyfe Leo Woodall as Howie Triest John Slattery as Col. Burton C. Andrus...
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  • bringing deadly weapons. The outcome of the trial, and Home Secretary David Maxwell Fyfe's failure to grant clemency to Bentley, were highly controversial....
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    two MPs for this seat to achieve the highest legal office. David Maxwell Fyfe Maxwell Fyfe, KC, MP from 1935 to 1954 (including World War II) became the...
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    then compelled to live". In December 1953, he sent a memorandum to David Maxwell Fyfe, then the Home Secretary, calling for the establishment of a departmental...
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  • rower David Maxwell (printer), English printer David Farrow Maxwell (1900–1985), president of the American Bar Association David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl...
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  • Murder" as Kelvin Halliday (2006) Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial (2006) as David Maxwell Fyfe Ghostboat as Captain Nathan Byrnes (2006) My Boy Jack (2007) as King...
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    charm, while dedicating her life to the success of her husband, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, whom she married in Liverpool in 1925. As well as caring for their...
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  • penalty campaigner Violet Van der Elst petitioned the Home Secretary David Maxwell Fyfe by letter to commute Louisa's death sentence to life in prison. She...
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    on this charge convincingly when cross-examined by prosecutor Sir David Maxwell Fyfe. On 25 February 1945, Hitler asked Dönitz whether the Geneva Convention...
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    defence of insanity because he had acted with malice aforethought. Sir David Maxwell Fyfe KC, defending, called many witnesses to attest to Haigh's mental state...
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    responsibility for the service was delegated to the Home Secretary David Maxwell-Fyfe in 1952, with a directive issued by the Home Secretary setting out...
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    Attorney General for England and Wales, assisted by his predecessor David Maxwell Fyfe. Although the chief British judge, Sir Geoffrey Lawrence (Lord Justice...
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  • the murders of his wife and daughter, the serving Home Secretary, David Maxwell-Fyfe, commissioned an inquiry to investigate the possibility of a miscarriage...
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  • school teacher Michael Gough as Lord Goddard Iain Cuthbertson as Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe Peter Eyre as Humphreys James Villiers as Cassels Clive Revill as...
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    1945 – 24 April 1951 Prime Minister Clement Attlee Preceded by Sir David Maxwell Fyfe Succeeded by Sir Frank Soskice Member of Parliament for St Helens...
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  • Censor in WWII Lieutenant General Sir David Young Malcolm Chisholm, politician John Corrie, politician David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, Home Secretary...
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    fiction film 9 playing elder leader 1. In 2000, Plummer played Sir David Maxwell Fyfe in the Primetime Emmy Award-winning Nuremberg (2000) alongside Alec...
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  • subsequent conduct of the parties. During the Nuremberg Trials, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe introduced the standard of the reasonable person to international...
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    enforcement agencies in the prevention and detection of serious crime. David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir Spycatcher Hansard. HL Deb 27 April 1989 vol...
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    Britain was virulently anti-homosexual. The then Home Secretary, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, had promised "a new drive against male vice" that would "rid England...
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    intelligence analyst Brian Jones in David Morley's radio drama The Iraq Dossier with Peter Firth, Anton Lesser, David Caves, and Lindsay Duncan. It recounted...
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  • in Jerusalem. The 1948 London edition contains a foreword by Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, Deputy Chief Prosecutor for the British Legation. The edition is...
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    such as Konrad Adenauer, Winston Churchill, Harold Macmillan, Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, Pierre-Henri Teitgen, François Mitterrand (both ministers in Robert...
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    and to establish a court to enforce it. British MP and lawyer Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, the chair of the Assembly's Committee on Legal and Administrative...
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  • and labour rights. David Maxwell Fyfe chaired a committee into Conservative Party organisation that resulted in the Maxwell Fyfe Report (1948–49). The...
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    Eliot, 1888–1965 Giles Cooper, 1918–1966 Arthur Ransome, 1884–1967 David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, 1900–1967 Sir Donald Wolfit, 1902–1968 Sir Noël...
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  • September. However, on 29 August, it was announced that Home Secretary David Maxwell Fyfe had recommended to the Queen that Straffen be reprieved. After his...
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  • attempted suicide. Jackson negotiates with Allied representatives Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, General Iona Nikitchenko and Henri Donnedieu de Vabres to ensure...
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