Find out more about the greatest British Lawyers & Judges, including Thomas Cromwell, John Winthrop, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., H. H. Asquith and Amal Alamuddin.
Amal Clooney03 February 1978
Lawyer, Activist
Thomas Cromwell1485 AD
English statesman
H. H. Asquith12 September 1852
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
John Winthrop12 January 1588
Politician, Theologian
Samuel Chase17 April 1741
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
Keir Starmer02 September 1962
Barrister
Nicola Sturgeon19 July 1970
Political Leader
Michael Gove26 August 1967
Journalist, Politician, Judge
Robert Rinder31 May 1978
Judge
Harriet Harman30 July 1950
Politician, Lawyer, Solicitor
Syed Ahmad Khan17 October 1817
Judge, Philosopher, Knight, Lawyer
Dominic Grieve24 May 1956
politician, barrister, Queen's Counsel
Anna Soubry07 December 1956
Politician
Max Mosley13 April 1940
Racecar driver, Lawyer, Politician, Directeur
Cherie Blair23 September 1954
Lawyer, Barrister
Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond31 January 1945
Politician, Judge, Lawyer
Michael Howard07 July 1941
Politician
Robin Cavendish12 March 1930
Advocate
Spencer Perceval01 November 1762
Politician, Lawyer
Jack Straw03 August 1946
Politician
Harold Abrahams15 December 1899
Athletics competitor, Sprinter, Lawyer, Journalist
Richard Henry Lee20 January 1732
Politician, Judge
Edward Coke01 February 1552
politician, judge, barrister, lawyer
Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich30 June 1496
Chancellor
A. V. Dicey04 February 1835
Jurist-consultant, University teacher
Michael Mansfield12 October 1941
Barrister, Lawyer
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.08 March 1841
Margaret Mountford24 November 1951
Lawyer, Businessperson
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville28 April 1742
Advocate
Thomas McKean19 March 1734
Lawyer, Politician, Judge
David Neuberger, Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury10 January 1948
Judge, Politician
Henry Fielding Dickens16 January 1849
Judge, Barrister, Lawyer
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Peter Benenson31 July 1921
Lawyer
Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss10 August 1933
Judge, Politician, Lawyer
John Selden16 December 1584
Jurist
Brian Leveson22 June 1949
Judge
Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood14 September 1864
Lawyer
Samuel Sewall28 March 1652
Jurist, Judge
Thomas Hughes20 October 1822
Lawyer
Geoffrey Elton17 August 1921
Writer, Historian of the modern age, Historian,
George Carman06 October 1929
Barrister
Nicholas Monsarrat22 March 1910
Novelist
Anthony Hope09 February 1863
Novelist
Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett06 September 1883
Judge, Politician, Lawyer, Barrister
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth08 February 1845
Economist, Statistician, Lawyer, Mathematician
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux19 September 1778
Politician
William Harrison Ainsworth04 February 1805
Novelist
Henry James Sumner Maine15 August 1822
Jurist
George Edalji29 February 1876
solicitor
William Paca31 October 1740
Politician, Lawyer, Judge
Abraham Clark15 February 1726
Politician, Lawyer
Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine10 January 1750
Lawyer
Constance Briscoe18 May 1957
Barrister
Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal19 August 1955
William Garrow13 April 1760
Judge, Politician, Barrister, Lawyer
Michael Gilbert17 July 1912
Solicitor
Richard Empson1450 AD
Lawyer
Thomas Jefferson Hogg24 May 1792
Barrister
Alex Carlile, Baron Carlile of Berriew12 February 1948
Politician, Barrister, Lawyer
Thomas Heyward Jr.28 July 1746
Politician, Judge
Bob Marshall-Andrews10 April 1944
Barrister
Thomas Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill13 October 1933
Politician, Judge, Lawyer
Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross04 February 1902
Jonathan Sumption09 December 1948
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil14 September 1864
British lawyer
Sir Guy Green05 November 1913
Alexander George Sutherland25 March 1862
Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson09 February 1854
Politician
Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St. Marylebone09 October 1907
Barrister
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck29 October 1740