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William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt

William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt

Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
William Allen Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt, PC 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. Wikipedia
Born: April 15, 1885, Stevenage, United Kingdom
Died: August 16, 1957 (age 72 years), Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom
Great-grandparents: Grace Firth, Joseph Jowitt, and Thomas Norton
Previous office: Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1945–1951)
Great grandchild: Laura Jane Wynn-Williams