Hartley Shawcross

British politician (1902-2003) · United Kingdom · On the map · Politicians · Died at 101

Hartley William Shawcross, Baron Shawcross,, known from 1945 to 1959 as Sir Hartley Shawcross, was an English barrister and Labour politician who served as the lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal.

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2003Died10 July 20031981Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of SurgeonsAward1974Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British EmpireAward1947Commander of the Order of Polonia RestitutaAward1902Born4 February 1902

People around Hartley

David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir Preceded Hartley as Attorney General for England and Wales

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Lord Shawcross's gravestone - Jevington, East Sussex.

Awards

Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons1981

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire1974

Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta1947

Knight Bachelor

About this person

He also served as Britain's principal delegate to the United Nations immediately after the Second World War and as Attorney General for England and Wales.

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United Kingdom