John Sankey, 1st Viscount Sankey

The Viscount Sankey
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
In office
7 June 1929 – 7 June 1935
MonarchGeorge V
Prime MinisterRamsay MacDonald
Preceded byThe Viscount Hailsham
Succeeded byThe Viscount Hailsham
Personal details
Born
John Sankey

26 October 1866 (1866-10-26)
Moreton-in-Marsh, England
Died6 February 1948 (1948-02-07) (aged 81)
London, England
Political partyLabour
Alma materJesus College, Oxford

John Sankey, 1st Viscount Sankey, GBE, PC (26 October 1866 – 6 February 1948) was a British lawyer, judge, Labour politician and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, famous for many of his judgments in the House of Lords. He gave his name to the Sankey Declaration of the Rights of Man (1940).