# List of Queen's Counsel in England and Wales appointed in 1954

A Queen's Counsel (post-nominal QC), or King's Counsel (post-nominal KC) during the reign of a king, is an eminent lawyer (usually a barrister or advocate) who is appointed by the monarch to be one of "Her Majesty's Counsel learned in the law." The term is recognised as an honorific. Appointments are made from within the legal profession on the basis of merit rather than a particular level of experience. Members have the privilege of sitting within the bar of court. As members wear silk gowns of a particular design (see court dress), appointment as Queen's Counsel is known informally as taking silk, and hence QCs are often colloquially called silks.
The rank emerged in the sixteenth century, but came to prominence over the course of the nineteenth. Appointment was open to barristers only until 1995. The first women KCs had been appointed only in 1949.

## 1954

| Name | Inns of Court | University | Notes |
| Ronald Owen Lloyd Armstrong-Jones, MBE | | | |
| Sir John Rowlatt, KCIE, CB, MC | | | |
| Clive Stuart Saxon Burt | Gray's Inn (1925) | University College, Oxford | Burt was born in 1900 and graduated from Oxford in 1922 with a history degree. After being called to the bar, he practised on the Western Circuit, although this was interrupted by service in the Second World War; he was commissioned into the Scots Guards in 1940 and ended the war a Captain. He was appointed chairman of the Performing Rights Tribunal in 1957, but the following year became a Metropolitan Magistrate, serving until 1973. He died in 1981. |
| Charles John Addison Doughty | | | |
| David Eifion Puleston Evans | | | |
| Maurice Legat Lyell | | | |
| Bernard Benjamin Gillis | | | |
| Myer Alan Barry King-Hamilton | | | |
| Percy Malcolm Wright, MBE | | | |
| Thomas George Talbot | | | |
| Dingle Mackintosh Foot | | | |
| Norman John Skelhorn | | | |
| John Anthony Plowman | | | |
| John Fitzgerald Marnan, MBE | Inner Temple (1931) | Trinity College, Oxford | Marnan was born in 1908, the son of an Irish barrister. He married three times, firstly to a daughter of the civil servant Sir Keith Price, and thirdly to a daughter of Major-General W. N. Herbert. He graduated from Oxford in 1931. His practice as a barrister was interrupted by service in the Second World War with the Irish Guards; he was appointed an MBE in 1944 and ended the war with the rank of Major. He was appointed a Metropolitan Magistrate in 1956, but two years later became a Crown Counsel in Kenya. In 1959, he was appointed a Justice of the Federal Supreme Court of the West Indies Federation. He returned to England in 1962 to be a commissioner in the Crown Court, moving to the Central Criminal Court two years later. He was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Greater London Quarter Sessions in 1966 and Chairman of the North East area of London Quarter Sessions two years later. His final judicial appointment was as a Circuit Judge; he sat between 1972 and 1980. He died in 1990. |
| Richard Orme Wilberforce, OBE | | | |
| Alexander David Karmel | | | |
| David Lockhart-Mure Renton, TD | | | |
| John Thompson | | | |
| Ernest Martin Jukes | | | |
| Joseph Donaldson Cantley, OBE | | | |
| George Stanley Waller, OBE | | | |
| Leonard Caplan | | | |