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    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...
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  • Sir William Hartley Hume Shawcross CVO (born 28 May 1946) is a British journalist, writer, and broadcaster. He is the incumbent Commissioner for Public...
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    Conrad Hartley Pelham Shawcross RA (born 26 April 1977) is a British artist specializing in mechanical sculptures based on philosophical and scientific...
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  • killer Christopher Nyholm Shawcross (1905–1973), English lawyer and politician; brother of Hartley Shawcross Conrad Shawcross (born 1977), English artist;...
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  • cabinet government. It is named for Hartley Shawcross, Attorney General from 1945 to 1951. What is now known as the Shawcross principle was the subject of debate...
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    interest" for this fact to be revealed. The eminent barrister Sir Hartley Shawcross finally persuaded him to withdraw his lawsuit after eighteen months...
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    1945 and Sir Hartley Shawcross became Attorney General and took responsibility as Britain's chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials. Shawcross, to emphasise...
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  • one, with the Attorney-General stepping up to take it. However, Sir Hartley Shawcross was unwilling and considered too young. The appointment of a stop-gap...
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    Minister Clement Attlee Preceded by Stafford Cripps Succeeded by Hartley Shawcross Secretary for Overseas Trade In office 10 July 1947 – 29 September...
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    Francis Biddle and John Parker. The British chief prosecutor was Hartley Shawcross, Attorney General for England and Wales, assisted by his predecessor...
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  • Christopher Nyholm Shawcross, QC (20 June 1905 – 18 August 1973) was a British lawyer and Labour politician. He was the younger son of John Shawcross and Hilda...
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    United Kingdom was initially represented by then-attorney general Hartley Shawcross, who had been chief prosecutor for the United Kingdom at the Nuremberg...
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    newcomers to the House of Commons included Michael Stewart, George Brown, Hartley Shawcross, Barbara Castle, Bessie Braddock, Richard Crossman, Michael Foot,...
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  • War I flying ace Hartley Rogers Jr. (1926–2015), American mathematician Hartley Sawyer (born 1985), American actor Hartley Shawcross (1902–2003), British...
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  • There are a number of paintings of Gill Bastedo, David Bowie, Iman, Hartley Shawcross, Yehudi Menuhin, Patrick Garland and others, including Marlene Dietrich...
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    ultimately be repaired by the mid-1950s. Fuchs was prosecuted by Sir Hartley Shawcross and was convicted on 1 March 1950 of four counts of breaking the Official...
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  • January 1957 Prime Minister Winston Churchill Anthony Eden Preceded by Hartley Shawcross Succeeded by David Eccles Personal details Born (1909-07-26)26 July...
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    1914–2000 Sir Robin Day, 1923–2000 George Carman, 1929–2001 Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, 1902–2003 Peter Carter-Ruck, 1914–2003 John Lanchbery, 1923–2003...
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    for War Crimes, formally advised the British Attorney-General, Sir Hartley Shawcross, of his intentions. The grounds for the prosecution would be the Commissar...
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    the first and second charges. However, the Attorney General, Sir Hartley Shawcross, successfully argued that Joyce's possession of a British passport...
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    Bevan (resigned) as Minister of Labour and National Service. Sir Hartley Shawcross succeeds Harold Wilson (resigned) as President of the Board of Trade...
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  • steel merchants. The yacht was at some time in the 1960s owned by Hartley Shawcross, who sold her to a yacht charter business in English Harbour, Antigua...
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    1951 – 26 October 1951 Prime Minister Clement Attlee Preceded by Hartley Shawcross Succeeded by Sir Lionel Heald Solicitor-General for England In office...
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  • chairman of the local panel of magistrates, and ex-Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross, a member of the opposition, at a hotel in Lewes.[citation needed]...
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  • John Purdell, 44, American musician and record producer, cancer. Hartley Shawcross, 101, English barrister, politician and chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg...
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  • Civilian - American-born with Irish ancestry. The Attorney General, Sir Hartley Shawcross, successfully argued that Joyce's possession of a British passport...
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  • Summersby, Lord Avon, W. Averell Harriman, Lord Mountbatten of Burma, Hartley Shawcross and Noble Frankland. 26 "Remember" 8 May 1974 (1974-05-08) How the...
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    but I was unable to move." The Attorney-General, Sir Hartley Shawcross KC (later Lord Shawcross), led for the prosecution and urged the jury to reject...
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  • Dönitz Albert Speer Daniel Ellsberg Beate Klarsfeld Serge Klarsfeld Hartley Shawcross Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff Johanna Hofer Walter Warlimont Ben Ferencz...
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  • Baillie-Stewart avoided execution only because the Attorney-General, Hartley Shawcross, did not think he could successfully try him on charges of high treason...
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