death_date death_place years_active birth_place title offices name birth_date tenure article_title birth_name
12 december 1971 city of london 1945 -- 1971 1945 -- 1971 west ham , london baron hampshire donovan , of winchester in the county of member court judge -lrb- 1950 -- 1960 -rrb- lord justice of of appeal -lrb- 1960 -- 1964 -rrb- privy counsellor -lrb- 1960 parliament -- 1971 -rrb- lord of appeal in ordinary -lrb- 1964 -lrb- -- 1971 -rrb- baron donovan , of winchester in the 1945 county of hampshire -lrb- 1964 -- 1971 -rrb- . -- 1950 -rrb- high terence donovan 13 june 1898 1964 -- 1971 terence donovan , baron donovan
 terence norbert donovan
terence donovan , baron donovan

terence norbert donovan , baron donovan pc -lrb- 13 june 1898 -- 12 december 1971 -rrb- was a british labour party politician , and later a judge .
born in west ham , london , donovan came to office in the labour landslide in the 1945 general election .
he was elected as member of parliament for leicester east .
when that constituency was abolished for the 1950 general election , he was re-elected for the new leicester north east constituency .
however , donovan resigned from the house of commons within weeks of the election , when he was appointed as a high court judge -lrb- his successor , sir lynn ungoed-thomas , also became a judge , in 1962 -rrb- .
he was promoted to the court of appeal in 1960 , when he also became a privy counsellor .
in 1964 he was appointed as a lord of appeal in ordinary , remaining in post until 1971 .
as a law lord he was given a life peerage as baron donovan , of winchester in the county of hampshire .
in 1965-1968 he chaired the royal commission on trade unions and employers ' associations -lrb- the so-called `` donovan commission '' -rrb- on the system of collective uk labour law .
he died within the city of london aged 73 .
