Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones

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Frederick Elwyn-Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones CH (* 24. October 1909 in Llanelli , Carmarthenshire , Wales , † 4. December 1989 in Brighton , East Sussex ) one was a British lawyer and politician of the Labor Party .

biography

After attending schools in Llanelli and Dyfed , he studied law at Aberystwyth University and the University of Cambridge and began practicing as a lawyer after being admitted to the bar in 1935 .

After the end of World War II, he began his political career with the Labor Party and was in the elections of July 5, 1945 as a member of the lower house ( House of Commons ) selected and represented there by 1950 the constituency West Ham - Plaistow Division . In 1945 he was also a member of the legal staff in preparation for the Nuremberg trials . In the general election of February 23, 1950 he was re-elected as a member of the House of Commons and was now until 1974 representative of the Newham South constituency .

Elwyn-Jones, who in 1961 of the founding members of Amnesty International was one, was after the election of the Labor Party in the general election in 1964 by Prime Minister Harold Wilson to the Attorney General ( Attorney General appointed). In this role, he also headed the legal advisory team for the investigation of the Aberfan mine disaster in 1966 . He held the post of Attorney General until the end of Wilson's tenure in June 1970.

After the Labor Party won the general election on February 28, 1974 , he succeeded Quintin McGarel Hogg as Lord Chancellor . With his resignation from the House of Commons and his appointment, he was also called to the nobility as a Life Peer , carried the title Baron Elwyn-Jones , of Llanelli in the County of Carmarthen and of Newham in Greater London, and was as such a member of the House of Lords . As Lord Chancellor he was in office until May 1979 and was then replaced by Quintin McGarel Hogg.

He then became a judge on the Court of Appeal for England and Wales ( Lord Justice of Appeal ) and was a member of this until his death in 1989.

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SURNAME Jones, Elwyn, Baron Elwyn-Jones
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elwyn-Jones, Frederick, Baron Elwyn-Jones (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British lawyer and politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Llanelli , Carmarthenshire, Wales
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1989
Place of death Brighton