page_title: David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir
hierarchical_section_title: David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir
caption_attribution_description: English: A head and shoulder portrait of The Rt Hon Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, turning towards the left.
context_page_description: David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, GCVO, PC, QC, known as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe from 1942 to 1954 and as Viscount Kilmuir from 1954 to 1962, was a British Conservative politician, lawyer and judge who combined an industrious and precocious legal career with political ambitions that took him to the offices of Solicitor General, Attorney General, Home Secretary and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
  One of the prosecutors at the Nuremberg Trials, he was instrumental in drafting the European Convention on Human Rights. However, he led a crackdown against homosexuals in the 1950s, and refused clemency to commute Derek Bentley's highly controversial death sentence. His political ambitions were ultimately dashed in Harold Macmillan's cabinet reshuffle of July 1962.
context_section_description: David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, GCVO, PC, QC (29 May 1900 – 27 January 1967), known as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe from 1942 to 1954 and as Viscount Kilmuir from 1954 to 1962, was a British Conservative politician, lawyer and judge who combined an industrious and precocious legal career with political ambitions that took him to the offices of Solicitor General, Attorney General, Home Secretary and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
  One of the prosecutors at the Nuremberg Trials, he was instrumental in drafting the European Convention on Human Rights. However, he led a crackdown against homosexuals in the 1950s, and refused clemency to commute Derek Bentley's highly controversial death sentence. His political ambitions were ultimately dashed in Harold Macmillan's cabinet reshuffle of July 1962.
caption: Nuremberg sketch by Laura Knight (1946)
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