David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir

British politician

Date of Birth: 29-May-1900

Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 27-Jan-1967

Profession: judge, politician, barrister

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, (29 May 1900 – 27 January 1967), known as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe from 1942 to 1954 and as Viscount Kilmuir from 1954 to 1962, was a British Conservative politician, lawyer and judge who combined an industrious and precocious legal career with political ambitions that took him to the offices of Solicitor General, Attorney General, Home Secretary and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. One of the prosecutors at the Nuremberg Trials, he was instrumental in drafting the European Convention on Human Rights.
However, he refused clemency to commute Derek Bentley's highly controversial death sentence.
His political ambitions were ultimately dashed in Harold Macmillan's cabinet reshuffle of July 1962.



Alternative names	Dame Laura Knight
Description	British artist
Date of birth/death	4 August 1877	7 July 1970
Location of birth/death	Long Eaton	London
Work location	Netherlands (1925); Amsterdam (1925)
Authority control	: Q2693890 VIAF: 24706017 ISNI: 0000 0000 8365 3621 ULAN: 500017204 LCCN: n85225095 NLA: 35753203 WorldCat