predecessor successor office primeminister term_start article_title term_end name
harold wilson sir david maxwell fyfe peter thorneycroft sir frank soskice president of the board of trade attorney general clement attlee clement attlee 24 april 4 august 1945 hartley shawcross , baron shawcross
 26 october 1951 24 april 1951 the lord shawcross
hartley shawcross , baron shawcross

hartley william shawcross , baron shawcross , gbe , pc , qc -lrb- 4 february 1902 -- 10 july 2003 -rrb- , known from 1945 to 1959 as sir hartley shawcross , was a british barrister and politician and the lead british prosecutor at the nuremberg war crimes tribunal .
