Hartley Shawcross

The Right Honourable The Lord Shawcross GBE PC QC
Shawcross being interviewed in 1954
President of the Board of Trade
In office 24 April 1951 – 26 October 1951
Prime Minister	Clement Attlee
Preceded by	Harold Wilson
Succeeded by	Peter Thorneycroft
Attorney-General for England
In office 4 August 1945 – 24 April 1951
Prime Minister	Clement Attlee
Preceded by	Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
Succeeded by	Sir Frank Soskice
Member of Parliament for St Helens
In office 5 July 1945 – May 1958
Preceded by	William Albert Robinson
Succeeded by	Leslie Spriggs
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 14 February 1959 – 10 July 2003 Life peerage
Personal details
Born	Hartley William Shawcross (1902-02-04)4 February 1902 Giessen, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Empire
Died	10 July 2003(2003-07-10) (aged 101) Cowbeech, East Sussex, England
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour (before 1959)
Other political affiliations	Crossbencher (1959–2003)
Spouses	Alberta Rosita Shyvers ​ ​ (m. 1924; died 1943)​ Joan Winifred Mather ​ ​ (m. 1944; died 1974)​ Susanne Monique Huiskamp ​ ​ (m. 1997)​
Children	3 (by Mather; including William)
Education	Dulwich College
Alma mater	London School of Economics University of Geneva
Awards	Knight Bachelor (1945)

Hartley William Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, GBE, PC, QC (4 February 1902 – 10 July 2003), known from 1945 to 1959 as Sir Hartley Shawcross, was an English barrister and Labour politician who served as the lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal. He also served as Britain's principal delegate to the United Nations immediately after the Second World War and as Attorney General for England.