Christopher Shawcross

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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 Constance Asser.[1] He was educated at Dulwich College and University College, Oxford, before going on to study law at Gray's Inn.[2]

He was

Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, where he reached the rank of Commander.[3][2]

At the

European Movement. He retired from politics in 1950, becoming Recorder of Nottingham.[2]

He became a

South Eastern Circuit
in 1969.

Christopher Shawcross married twice. His 1931 marriage to Doreen Burrows was dissolved in 1949, and he married Maridel Chance in the same year and they had two children.

Hartley Shawcross
, also a distinguished lawyer and Labour politician.

He died at his home in Haywards Heath, Sussex, aged 68.[2]

References

Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [

better source needed
]

  1. ^ Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1999, p. 2594
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Obituary: Mr C. N. Shawcross, The Times, 21 August 1973, p.14
  3. ^ Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1999, p. 2594
  4. ^ C N Shawcross, The Law of Motor Insurance, London, 1935
  5. ^ Christopher N Shawcross and others, Shawcross and Beaumont on Air Law, London, 1951
  6. ^ Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1999, p. 2594

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Richard Pilkington
Member of Parliament for Widnes
19451950
Succeeded by