William Allen Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt, PC was a Labour politician and lawyer who served as Lord Chancellor 1945-51. Married Lesley McIntyre in 1913. No sons and we think, no daughters. Entered the House of Lords in 1945.
The photo by Bassano Ltd, shows Jowitt in 1940.
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Earl Jowitt
Earl Jowitt, in his Lord Chancellor robes and wig, raises both hands, palms t...
Connected with the Chelsea Temperance Society for 21 years, he was actively engaged in the national temperance organizations and in the development of the “Royal Army Temperance Association” of whi...
In 1972 a prison guard was murdered in Angola Prison, Louisiana, USA, where Herman Wallace, Robert King, and Albert Woodfox were prisoners. Wallace and Woodfox were convicted of the murder; King w...
Person, Law, Race Issues, Tragedy, USA
Legal group established with the objectives of working towards the elimination of racial discrimination within the legal profession and the achievement of true equality of opportunity and equal acc...
This was on the southern most section of Whitecross Street, immediately north of St Giles Cripplegate, considerably further south than the plaque location. Designed by William Montague and built i...
Alderman in the Borough of Hammersmith in 1948. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man: William Henry Church was born in 1876 in Knightsbridge, a son of Joseph Church and Mary Ann Chur...
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