Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
29 May 1900
['7 November 1974', '27 November 1936', '2 November 1992', '9 January 1956', '10 February 1945', '7 May 1908', '27 June 1964', '18 March 1949', '3 January 1985', '2 October 1942', '31 July 1956', '15 January 1962', '10 October 1970', '10 January 1894', '9 April 1948', '24 March 1981', '10 February 1915', '6 April 1991', '8 August 1952', '13 December 1974', '9 May 1977', '4 May 2009', '17 May 1996', '13 June 1954', '20 July 1961', '16 March 1953', '15 April 1986', '16 February 1878', '17 January 1966', '10 May 1972', '16 January 1949', '18 October 1930', '31 August 1960', '22 July 1921', '15 August 1927', '10 October 1973', '6 May 1854', '4 May 1914', '24 July 1993', '30 September 1969', '11 June 1911', '9 March 1981', '14 November 1943', '2 May 1969', '20 October 1899', '3 October 1934', '22 July 1957', '10 September 1954', '17 June 1907', '12 August 1952', '13 April 1948', '8 August 1961', '8 November 1985', '4 April 1955', '9 August 1954', '6 July 1985', '20 August 1990', '30 July 1993', '8 June 1976', '23 August 1924', '30 December 1987', '28 July 1979', '11 July 1972', '8 November 1935', '19 June 1932', '12 April 1968', '19 September 1970', '24 May 1892', '30 September 1973', '12 August 1904', '13 December 1988', '10 August 1992', '20 September 1967', '20 January 1943', '24 March 1974', '9 February 1958', '23 October 1945', '3 April 1931', '26 September 1923', '11 November 1887', '15 July 1919', '1 March 1988', '2 January 1884', '25 July 1937', '30 November 1884', '23 May 1926', '26 December 1929', '9 November 1903', '7 September 1984', '14 December 1922', '19 July 1976', '4 March 1979', '1 February 1944', '23 April 1961', '4 August 1913', '26 October 1988', '1 September 1918', '1 December 1958', '21 April 1957']
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir
David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, GCVO, PC, QC (29 May 1900 – 27 January 1967), known as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe from 1942 to 1954 and as the 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 was also a controversial Home Secretary who 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.