William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt

The Right Honourable The Earl Jowitt PC, KC
Jowitt in 1940
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
In office 27 July 1945 – 26 October 1951
Monarch	George VI
Prime Minister	Clement Attlee
Preceded by	The Viscount Simon
Succeeded by	The Lord Simonds
Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords Shadow Leader of the House of Lords
In office 1952 – 14 December 1955
Party Leader	Clement Attlee Herbert Morrison (acting) Hugh Gaitskell
Preceded by	The Viscount Addison
Succeeded by	The Earl Alexander of Hillsborough
Ministerial offices Paymaster General In office 4 March 1942 – 1942 Prime Minister Winston Churchill Preceded by Maurice Hankey Succeeded by Frederick Lindemann, 1st Baron Cherwell Solicitor-General for England In office 15 May 1940 – 4 March 1942 Prime Minister Winston Churchill Preceded by Terence O'Connor Succeeded by David Maxwell Fyfe Attorney-General for England In office 7 June 1929 – 26 January 1932 Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald Preceded by Thomas Inskip Succeeded by Thomas Inskip
Parliamentary offices Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal Life peerage 2 August 1945 – 16 August 1957 Member of Parliament for Ashton-under-Lyne In office 28 October 1939 – 2 August 1945 Preceded by Fred Simpson Succeeded by Hervey Rhodes Member of Parliament for Preston In office 30 May 1929 – 27 October 1931 Serving with Tom Shaw Preceded by Alfred Ravenscroft Kennedy Tom Shaw Succeeded by William Kirkpatrick Adrian Moreing Member of Parliament for The Hartlepools In office 15 November 1922 – 29 October 1924 Preceded by W. G. Howard Gritten Succeeded by Wilfrid Sugden
Personal details
Born	(1885-04-15)15 April 1885 Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England
Died	16 August 1957(1957-08-16) (aged 72) Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Political party	Labour National Labour Liberal
Spouse	Lesley McIntyre ​ (m. 1913)​
Alma mater	New College, Oxford

William Allen Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt, PC, KC (15 April 1885 – 16 August 1957) was a British Liberal Party, National Labour and then Labour Party politician and lawyer who served as Lord Chancellor under Clement Attlee from 1945 to 1951.