Hartley Shawcross

The Lord Shawcross
Shawcross being interviewed in 1954
President of the Board of Trade
In office
24 April 1951 – 26 October 1951
Prime MinisterClement Attlee
Preceded byHarold Wilson
Succeeded byPeter Thorneycroft
Attorney-General for England
In office
4 August 1945 – 24 April 1951
Prime MinisterClement Attlee
Preceded bySir David Maxwell Fyfe
Succeeded bySir Frank Soskice
Member of Parliament
for St Helens
In office
5 July 1945 – May 1958
Preceded byWilliam Albert Robinson
Succeeded byLeslie Spriggs
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
14 February 1959 – 10 July 2003
Life peerage
Personal details
Born
Hartley William Shawcross

(1902-02-04)4 February 1902
Giessen, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Empire
Died10 July 2003(2003-07-10) (aged 101)
Cowbeech, East Sussex, England
NationalityBritish
Political partyLabour (before 1959)
Other political
affiliations
Crossbencher (1959–2003)
Spouses
Alberta Rosita Shyvers
(m. 1924; died 1943)
Joan Winifred Mather
(m. 1944; died 1974)
Susanne Monique Huiskamp
(m. 1997)
Children3 (by Mather; including William)
EducationDulwich College
Alma mater
AwardsKnight Bachelor (1945)

Hartley William Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, GBE, PC, QC (4 February 1902 – 10 July 2003), 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. He also served as Britain's principal delegate to the United Nations immediately after the Second World War and as Attorney General for England.