1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Liverpool West Derby Constituency – Biography of Fyfe

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Liverpool West Derby

CANDIDATE : Fyfe

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, K.C., sat for this division from 1935. He was born in 1900 and educated at Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and Balliol College, Oxford. During the 1914-18 war he served with the Scots Guards. He took silk in 1934 and later was appointed Recorder of Oldham and became a member of the General Council of the Bar. In 1942 he was appointed Solicitor-General and became Attorney-General in the ” caretaker ” Government in 1945. He went to the Nuremberg trials as deputy chairman of the British War Crimes Executive and there made an international reputation as cross-examiner of the Nazi criminals. In 1947 he received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Liverpool University.

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