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    Hartley William Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, GBE, PC, QC (4 February 1902 – 10 July 2003), known from 1945 to 1959 as Sir Hartley Shawcross, was an English...
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  • Sir William Hartley Hume Shawcross CVO (born 28 May 1946) is a British journalist, writer, and broadcaster. He is the incumbent Commissioner for Public...
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    Conrad Hartley Pelham Shawcross RA (born 26 April 1977) is a British artist specializing in mechanical sculptures based on philosophical and scientific...
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  • killer Christopher Nyholm Shawcross (1905–1973), English lawyer and politician; brother of Hartley Shawcross Conrad Shawcross (born 1977), English artist;...
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    1945 and Sir Hartley Shawcross became Attorney General and took responsibility as Britain's chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials. Shawcross, to emphasise...
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  • Christopher Nyholm Shawcross, QC (20 June 1905 – 18 August 1973) was a British lawyer and Labour politician. He was the younger son of John Shawcross and Hilda...
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    interest" for this fact to be revealed. The eminent barrister Sir Hartley Shawcross finally persuaded him to withdraw his lawsuit after eighteen months...
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    Bevan (resigned) as Minister of Labour and National Service. Sir Hartley Shawcross succeeds Harold Wilson (resigned) as President of the Board of Trade...
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    but I was unable to move." The Attorney-General, Sir Hartley Shawcross KC (later Lord Shawcross), led for the prosecution, and urged the jury to reject...
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    Minister Clement Attlee Preceded by Stafford Cripps Succeeded by Hartley Shawcross Secretary for Overseas Trade In office 10 July 1947 – 29 September...
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  • one, with the Attorney-General stepping up to take it. However, Sir Hartley Shawcross was unwilling and considered too young. The appointment of a stop-gap...
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    United Kingdom was initially represented by then-attorney general Hartley Shawcross, who had been chief prosecutor for the United Kingdom at the Nuremberg...
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  • Civilian - American-born with Irish ancestry. The Attorney General, Sir Hartley Shawcross, successfully argued that Joyce's possession of a British passport...
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    Eleanor Shawcross, the daughter of the Commissioner for Public Appointments, William Shawcross and grand-daughter of the barrister Hartley Shawcross, became...
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  • Summersby, Lord Avon, W. Averell Harriman, Lord Mountbatten of Burma, Hartley Shawcross and Noble Frankland. 26 "Remember" 8 May 1974 (1974-05-08) How the...
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  • War I flying ace Hartley Rogers Jr. (1926–2015), American mathematician Hartley Sawyer (born 1985), American actor Hartley Shawcross (1902–2003), British...
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    Federation of Great Britain (MFGB). Both sides employed barristers, Hartley Shawcross for the owners; while the MFGB were offered pro bono publico the services...
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    Francis Biddle and John Parker. The British chief prosecutor was Hartley Shawcross, Attorney General for England and Wales, assisted by his predecessor...
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  • January 1957 Prime Minister Winston Churchill Anthony Eden Preceded by Hartley Shawcross Succeeded by David Eccles Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal...
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    for War Crimes, formally advised the British Attorney-General, Sir Hartley Shawcross, of his intentions. The grounds for the prosecution would be the Commissar...
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    newcomers to the House of Commons included Michael Stewart, George Brown, Hartley Shawcross, Barbara Castle, Bessie Braddock, Richard Crossman, Michael Foot,...
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  • Beloved Country, The Ides of March, and The Naked and the Dead." Hartley Shawcross as Attorney General for England and Wales explained why he would not...
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  • potential for the event to become politicised was far too great. Sir Hartley Shawcross, addressing Parliament on the matter, said: "The clandestine removal...
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    ultimately be repaired by the mid-1950s. Fuchs was prosecuted by Sir Hartley Shawcross and was convicted on 1 March 1950 of four counts of breaking the Official...
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  • principal donor to the John Ritblat Gallery of the British Library Hartley Shawcross (1902–2003), lawyer and Labour politician, lead British prosecutor...
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    Liverpool West Derby 25 May 1945 26 July 1945 Churchill (Caretaker) Hartley Shawcross MP for St Helens 4 August 1945 24 April 1951 Labour Attlee Frank Soskice...
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  • because Hartley Shawcross was at this date a prominent member of the Labour government. A 1982 TV series starring Tim Pigott-Smith as Hamer Shawcross more...
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  • 1946–48: G. O. Slade 1948–52: Sir Godfrey Russell Vick 1952–57: Sir Hartley Shawcross 1957–58: Milner Holland 1958–60: Gerald Gardiner 1960–62: Geoffrey...
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  • Post. MediaNews Group. Retrieved 2012-08-09. Telegraph obituary: Lord Shawcross "A centennial celebration". Emory Lawyer. Atlanta: Emory University School...
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    January 1951 during the Labour Attlee ministry, Attorney-General Hartley Shawcross left his name to a Parliamentary principle in a defense of his conduct...
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