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William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt

The Right Honourable
The Earl Jowitt
PC
Jowitt in 1940
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
In office
27 July 1945 – 26 October 1951
Prime MinisterClement Attlee
Preceded byThe Viscount Simon
Succeeded byThe Lord Simonds
Personal details
Born(1885-04-15)15 April 1885
Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England
Died16 August 1957(1957-08-16) (aged 72)
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Political party
Spouse
Lesley McIntyre
​
(m. 1913)​
Alma materNew College, Oxford
Arms of Jowitt: Azure, on a chevron argent between two chaplets of oak in chief and a lion sejant guardant in base or three bugle-horns stringed sable; crest: A lion sejant guardant gules the dexter forepaw supporting an escutcheon of the arms; supporters: On either side a spaniel with a Chancellor's Purse proper that on the dexter charged with a rose argent and that on the sinister with a rose gules both barbed and seeded also proper suspended from the neck by a cord or; motto: Tenax et Fidelis

William Allen Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt, PC (15 April 1885 – 16 August 1957) was a British Liberal Party, National Labour and then Labour Party politician and lawyer who served as Lord Chancellor under Clement Attlee from 1945 to 1951.

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