David Widdicombe (barrister)
David Graham Widdicombe (January 1924 – 27 November 2019) was a British Queen's Counsel and political activist. Born in St Albans, Widdicombe attended St Albans School and then Queens' College, Cambridge. After one year at university, he was called up to serve in the British Army for the remainder of World War II. At the 1945 UK general election, Widdicombe stood for the Labour Party in Hythe, aged just 21, taking 35.2% of the vote and second place. In 1946, he was demobbed and returned to Queens', where in 1947 he was a founder of the "Varsity