Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones

Frederick Elwyn Elwyn-Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones, CH PC (24 October 1909–4 December 1989) was a British barrister and politician.

Jones was born in Llanelli, read law at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He became a barrister and Recorder of Merthyr Tydfil. He was also a broadcaster and journalist. He served as junior British Counsel during the Nuremberg Trials and led for the prosecution (leading prosecutor at the Hamburg trial of Marshal Erich von Manstein in 1948. He had spent time in Germany in the 1930s as a young man.

At the 1945 general election, Jones was elected as Labour Member of Parliament for Plaistow, East London. In 1950, he became MP for West Ham South, serving until 1974.

Jones was appointed by Harold Wilson as Attorney General for England and Wales, serving from 1964 to 1970. During this time, he led the prosecution of the Moors murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. In February 1974, he was once again elected to Parliament, now for Newham South, but left the House of Commons soon afterwards when he was made a life peer, as Baron Elwyn-Jones, of Llanelli in the County of Carmarthen and of Newham in Greater London.

He became Lord Chancellor from 1974 to 1979, under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan. He became a Privy Counsellor in 1964.

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* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=22765 Elwyn Jones at Find-A-Grave]
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