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Sir
James Fawcett
DSC QC
Born
James Edmund Sandford Fawcett
(1913-04-16)16 April 1913
Wallingford, Berkshire, England
Died
24 June 1991(1991-06-24) (aged 78)
Oxford, England
Alma mater
New College, Oxford
Occupation
Barrister
Years active
1945–1984
Known for
Member (1962–1984) then President of the European Commission for Human Rights (1972–1981)
Spouse
Frances Beatrice Lowe
(m. 1937)
Children
5, including Edmund Fawcett and Charlotte Johnson Wahl
Relatives
Boris Johnson (grandson)
Rachel Johnson (granddaughter)
Jo Johnson (grandson)
Military career
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
Royal Navy
Years of service
1940–1945
Rank
Lieutenant commander
Battles/wars
Second World War
Barrister and member of the European Commission for Human Rights
Sir James Edmund Sandford FawcettDSC QC (16 April 1913 – 24 June 1991) was a British barrister. He was a member of the European Commission for Human Rights from 1962 to 1984, and its president from 1972 to 1981, and was knighted in 1984.[1][2]
^‘FAWCETT, Sir James (Edmund Sandford)’, Who Was Who, A. & C. Black, 1920–2008; online ed. by Oxford University Press, Dec 2007, accessed 15 January 2012
^R. Y. Jennings, ‘Fawcett, Sir James Edmund Sandford (1913–1991)’, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 online edition
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much" the night before at the Carlton Club, a private members' club, in St James's, London, and having "embarrassed myself and other people". It was alleged...
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