Fenton Atkinson
Sir Fenton Atkinson (6 January 1906 – 28 March 1980) was a British High Court judge. He was the judge who oversaw the trial of the Moors murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, at Chester Assizes in 1966.
Early and private life
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Atkinson was the son of High Court judge and Conservative Party politician Sir Cyril Atkinson. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. He married Margaret Mary Roy in 1929. They had a son and two daughters.
Career
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Atkinson was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1928. Like his father, he practised on the Northern Circuit.
He served in the
Second World War, receiving an emergency commission, and achieving the substantive rank of Major and acting Brigadier by September 1943. He served as an Assistant Adjutant general in India. He also served with the British Military Government in occupied Germany after the War, and participated in the Nuremberg trials
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He was appointed as a
Queen's Bench Division, and received the customary knighthood
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He was a member of the
Commission in 1966–67 that recommended reforms to the court system of Assizes and Quarter Sessions, leading to the Crown Courts
system from 1971.
Atkinson was promoted to the
conspiracy to corrupt public morals in relation to gay contact advertisements published in IT magazine.[1]
Arms
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Notes
- "ATKINSON, Rt Hon. Sir Fenton", Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 18 Aug 2012
- "Sir Fenton Atkinson". The Times (London, England), Saturday, Mar 29, 1980; pg. 14; Issue 60588. (276 words)
- Atkinson, Sir Fenton, generals.dk
- Sir Fenton Atkinson, National Portrait Gallery
References
- ^ "Knuller v DPP". Vanuatu.usp.ac.fj. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
- ^ "Lincoln's Inn Great Hall, Wd10 Atkinson, F". Baz Manning. 13 July 2009. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
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