High Court Judge, particularly famous in law, also King's Counsel[1]
Father of Baron Havers (Queen Counsel, Lord Chancellor under Margaret Thatcher)[2][3][1] and grandfather of another Queen's Counsel (Philip Havers) and a notable actor (Nigel Havers)
Father of Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness; the first female Lord Justice of Appeal and first female President of the Family Division, High Court[1][4]
WWI: 2nd Lt., 5th Battalion Hampshire Regiment[1], retired as a Captain in 1939
1939 King's Counsel
1951 High Court Judge; knighthood
last judge to sentence a woman to be hanged - Ruth Ellis for murder[1][3]
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