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
Samuel Chase17 April 1741
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
Michael Gove26 August 1967
Journalist, Politician, Judge
Keir Starmer02 September 1962
Barrister
Syed Ahmad Khan17 October 1817
Judge, Philosopher, Knight, Lawyer
Harriet Harman30 July 1950
Politician, Lawyer, Solicitor
Max Mosley13 April 1940
Racecar driver, Lawyer, Politician, Directeur
John A. Macdonald11 January 1815
Politician, Lawyer
Cherie Blair23 September 1954
Lawyer, Barrister
Robin Cavendish12 March 1930
Advocate
John Winthrop12 January 1588
Politician, Theologian
Edward Coke01 February 1552
politician, judge, barrister, lawyer
Dominic Grieve24 May 1956
politician, barrister, Queen's Counsel
Spencer Perceval01 November 1762
Politician, Lawyer
Richard Henry Lee20 January 1732
Politician, Judge
Harold Abrahams15 December 1899
Athletics competitor, Sprinter, Lawyer, Journalist
Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond31 January 1945
Politician, Judge, Lawyer
Michael Mansfield12 October 1941
Barrister, Lawyer
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.08 March 1841
A. V. Dicey04 February 1835
Jurist-consultant, University teacher
Thomas McKean19 March 1734
Lawyer, Politician, Judge
Henry Fielding Dickens16 January 1849
Judge, Barrister, Lawyer
David Neuberger, Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury10 January 1948
Judge, Politician
Peter Benenson31 July 1921
Lawyer
Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex1485 AD
Lawyer
Brian Leveson22 June 1949
Judge
Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood14 September 1864
Lawyer
Geoffrey Elton17 August 1921
Writer, Historian of the modern age, Historian,
George Carman06 October 1929
Barrister
Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss10 August 1933
Judge, Politician, Lawyer
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Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett06 September 1883
Judge, Politician, Lawyer, Barrister
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth08 February 1845
Economist, Statistician, Lawyer, Mathematician
Samuel Sewall28 March 1652
Jurist, Judge
George Edalji29 February 1876
solicitor
William Paca31 October 1740
Politician, Lawyer, Judge
Abraham Clark15 February 1726
Politician, Lawyer
Margaret Mountford24 November 1951
Lawyer, Businessperson
William Garrow13 April 1760
Judge, Politician, Barrister, Lawyer
Alex Carlile, Baron Carlile of Berriew12 February 1948
Politician, Barrister, Lawyer
Jonathan Sumption09 December 1948
Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal19 August 1955
Thomas Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill13 October 1933
Politician, Judge, Lawyer
Thomas Heyward Jr.28 July 1746
Politician, Judge
Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross04 February 1902
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil14 September 1864
British lawyer
William Orville Douglas16 October 1898
Sir Guy Green05 November 1913
Alexander George Sutherland25 March 1862
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck29 October 1740