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  William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lawyer and MP William Jowitt was born in Stevenage, the son of the village rector.
Jowitt was a member of the faction of the Liberal Party led by Herbert Asquith, and somewhat radical in his beliefs.
Jowitt was re-elected, now part of the re-united Liberal Party, in 1923, and in 1924 was a member of the Royal Commission on Lunacy.
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 Jowett Variations One Name Study: The Jowett/Jewett Register of Researchers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
William Allen Jowitt was born the son of William Jowitt, Rector of Stevenage, Hitchin Herfordshire in 1885.
William himself was educated at Oxford, and was called to the Middle Temple in 1909 where he rapidly made a name for himself as an shrewd minded advocate, later being described as "A cool, self-possessed duelist with a mind as keen as a sword blade, wary and nimble witted, thoroughly sure of his ground".
William was given the title of Baron in 1945, Viscount of Stevenage in 1947, and Earl in 1951.
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 William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Jowitt was born in Stevenage, the son of the village rector.
Jowitt was re-elected, now part of the re-united Liberal Party, at the 1923 general election, and in 1924 was a member of the Royal Commission on Lunacy.
He was raised to the peerage as Baron Jowitt on 2 August (he became a Viscount in 1947), and entered the House of Lords.
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 Jowett Variations One Name Study: The Jowitts of Oulton
William was born at Low Street, Lee Gap, Woodkirk and was a gardener of Rhodes Green, Oulton in 1841.
Benjamin Jowitt (1797 - 1880) and Sarah Hewitt (1797 - 1869)
Harry Jowitt was born in Stockport on October 8th 1892 and christened at Heaton Mersey Church on November 6th, the first child of Benjamin and Mary Jowitt.
www.jowitt1.org.uk /myfamily.htm   (2728 words)

  
 Roger Williams: Family History - The Brann Family at Wittersham
In 1880, when the schoolmaster was William Day, his wife Mary was the schoolmistress, their daughter Margaret was a monitor, and the assistant mistress, Emma Reeder, boarded with them.
William Cobbett, who, in his rides about the country observed this poverty at first hand, wrote "never will these people lie down and starve quietly"; and they did not.
William married Katherine Jenner in 1848 and lived at 60 Back Road for many years, and Jane married William Larkins of Bates Farm in 1856.
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 Amazon.com: The strange case of Alger Hiss: Books: William Allen Jowitt Jowitt (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jowitt said only the typewritten documents were self-corroborating since handwritten documents could be acquired by theft (p.17).
Jowitt questions Hiss's guilt given the fact that this typewriter was not destroyed (p.31).
William Allen Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt (1885-1957) was a British Labour MP, and highly respected lawyer, who was appointed Lord Chancellor by Clement Atlee in 1945.
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 Upper Brook Street: South Side | British History Online
of William Knollys, styled Viscount Wallingford, and da.
The front of the house is still of the original brick with the addition of an extra storey (Plate 54d), but much of the interior (which is modest in character) appears to date from a campaign of alterations carried out in 1901—2 for the speculator William Tebb to designs by Zephaniah King and Son.
William Talbot, son of 3rd Lord Talbot of Malahide, 1881: his wid., 1881—3.
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 David McKie: No sense in self-denial | Guardian daily comment | Guardian Unlimited
Sir William Jowitt switched from Liberal to Labour on being appointed attorney-general in 1929, not 1919, as stated in the article below.
Among other cases, William Jowitt, who went on to be Labour's lord chancellor, gave up his seat at Preston in 1929 on leaving the Liberal party and held it for Labour.
Tony Benn's father, William Wedgwood Benn, who had made the same transition two years before, had taken the even more self-denying step of resigning his seat at Leith and staying out of the subsequent byelection; but he came back to the Commons the following year at a byelection in Aberdeen.
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 Lord Chancellors
Arfastus or Herefast, chaplain to the king (William the Conqueror) and bishop of Elmham, was lord chancellor in 1067.
William Cowper (died 1723, First Earl Cowper since 1718), lord keeper since 1705, created Chancellor1707, (1st Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, the Act of Union), until 1708, again 1714-18.
The signature on the left, by the way, is on an official document which is also signed by King George V. William Jowitt (1885-1957, created Lord Jowitt in 1945, Viscount 1947, Earl 1951), Lord Chancellor 1945-51.
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 The Avalon Project : International Conference on Military Trials : London, 1945 - Summary Record of Conference Between ...
He stated that he had been given responsibility for the further conduct of negotiations on behalf of the new government and by conference with the British representatives had informed himself of the points upon which agreement had been reached and of the points of disagreement.
Lord Jowitt desired to be acquainted with the American point of view as to the unsettled questions.
Justice Jackson on all except one of the points, namely, the right to terminate the agreement if any of the signatories failed promptly to name prosecutors, which he suggested might be taken to imply a distrust in some signatory.
www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/imt/jackson/jack58.htm   (281 words)

  
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Jowitt stood successfully in Preston in the 1929 General Election, again being
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 Corrections and clarifications | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
IAC have asked us to point out that the company now has a total of 69 "brands/websites".
The reports of the death of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the archive slot, page 40, October 27, should have been dated October 27 1944 (not 1955).
Sir William Jowitt switched from Liberal to Labour on being appointed attorney-general in 1929, not 1919 (Elsewhere, page 38, October 26).
www.guardian.co.uk /corrections/story/0,,1935430,00.html   (284 words)

  
 The Motorway Archive. Visualisation and Policy.
The Cabinet knew he had been retained to write it at Lord Leathers’ instance, although it was well into July 1943 before Leathers, as Minister of War Transport, released it for Cabinet Committee scrutiny.
Cook's presentation was thus just part of a response to the wider transport brief formulated by Arthur Greenwood and William Jowitt, with recorded help from Sir John Reith, Ernest Bevin, Hugh Beaver and Clem Atlee from August 1941 onwards.
The influence and quality of the technical advice from the ICE which Beaver procured for Cook in 1942 reveals too the work done by Alexander Gibb for the Institution under the auspices of its Post War National Development Committee formed in 1940 and chaired by Sir Clement Hindley.
www.iht.org /motorway/v1chap2.htm   (512 words)

  
 HTML Translation of SGML/EAD Document by Tim Green
Sir William Jowitt to HD and reply; re Cripps, mss and tss, 14 - 16 February 1939.
HD to Sir William Jowitt, internationalisation of civil aviation, tss, 6 January 1943.
Lord Jowitt to HD, three letters and a memorandum concerning the Lynskey Tribunal, tss and mss, 10, 13 and 14 December 1948.
library-2.lse.ac.uk /archives/handlists/Dalton/m.html   (15872 words)

  
 Department for Constitutional Affairs - Lord Chancellors and Lord Keepers: past and present
William Airmyn, bishop of Norwich, acting keeper of the seal, jointly with Henry Cliff
William Warham, archbishop of Canterbury, keeper of the seal
William Paulet, Lord of St John, keeper of the seal
www.dca.gov.uk /lcfr.htm   (489 words)

  
 TBRNews.org
It is not my intent to impute to a husband all the views of his wife but in the case of William Bullitt and Louise Bryant, it would seem that birds of a feather do indeed flock together.
We know this from British sources; the whole matter is very clearly set forth in the biography of William Stephenson, the principal British agent in the United States engaged in bringing about American participation in the shooting war.
Ramsay was subsequently described by the very prosecutor himself, SolicitorGeneral Sir William Jowitt, as an honorable man who would not knowingly do anything to harm his country.
www.tbrnews.org /Archives/a139.htm   (10845 words)

  
 British ministries, political parties, etc.
1799) 1791 - 1801 William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville (b.
1811) 1794 - 1801 William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, Duke of Portland (b.
1954) 28 Jul 1945 - 25 Oct 1951 William Jowitt, Baron Jowitt (from 1947, William Jowitt, Viscount Jowitt) (b.
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 State Secrets, Tyler Kent, Winston Churchill, Roosevelt, President, Naval Person, Gray Code, MI5, Joseph P Kennedy, ...
As Lord Chancellor in 1945, he was one of the Law Lords who turned down William Joyce’s appeal.
He published summaries of the Kent and Wolkoff trials in 1954 in which he falsely claimed that James Hughes ‘could not be identified’.
William Joyce's second wife, she went to Germany with him in August 1939.
www.statesecrets.co.uk /who/index-j.shtml   (379 words)

  
 Revisionism 105
Tyler Gatewood Kent was born on 24 March 1911 in Nowchwang (Yingkow), northern China, where his father, William P. Kent, was serving as the American Consul.
As has often happened, the truth about the map did not emerge until many years after the war: It was a forgery produced by the British intelligence service, most probably at its technical laboratory in Ontario, Canada.
William Stephenson (code name: Intrepid), chief of British intelligence operations in North America, passed it on to U.S. intelligence chief William Donovan, who gave it to Roosevelt.
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 Nuremberg Timeline
Truman was satisfied by the memo that Jackson was the right person for the job, so on May 2, the President issued Executive Order 9547, appointing Robert H. Jackson chief prosecutor for the United States in the proposed trials of Nazi war criminals.
On July 29, the Washington Star reported that Jackson was “demanding accord on war trials this week.” The New York Times reported on July 30 that Jackson would withdraw from the conference “Unless the four-power committeeÂ…completes its work this week.” Jackson’s “ultimatum” on July 30 accelerated the signing process.
With crucial help from the newly-appointed British delegate, Lord Chancellor William Jowitt, who came to power on August 1, Jackson succeeded in settling the differences among the four delegations and reached a final agreement.
www.roberthjackson.org /International_Law/time_capsule   (6418 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Jowitt's Dictionary of English Law: 2nd Cumulative Supplement to 2nd Edition: Books: Clifford Walsh,William ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 SIR SHANE LESLIE PAPERS: FOLDER LISTING CONTINUED
William A. Hemmick to Shane Leslie, with news from the Vatican.
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from Arthur William Hill to Shane Leslie, including tree talk and news of Kings College, Cambridge.
DESCRIPTION: Contains 6 ALS from Lesley Jowitt, wife of William Baron Jowitt, Viscount of Stevenage.
www.library.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/fl/f163}9.htm   (1449 words)

  
 Business News & Events
This new development displayed at the show for the first time is intended to reduce the amount of components in the back end of the bodymaker.
Shown below are from left to right Ian Scholey, John Fox-Mills and William Jowitt receiving the award from the Metpack Committee.
The image to the right shows the current bodymaker backend configuration, notice all the major components at the back end of the machine.
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One cannot imagine Clement Attlee allowing William Jowitt to cavort in this gormless way.
Not that Jowitt would have wished to do so; it would never have entered his decent, learned, level head.
Derry worships the one who appointed him (I do not refer to H.M. the Queen).
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 Kennys Bookshop & Art Galleries Ltd - Shop Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lafayette, a biography - Woodward, William E. The road to safety - a study in Anglo-American relations - Willert, Arthur, - With a pref.
The United States and the United Nations - the public view, 1945-1955 - Scott, William Abbott, - by William A. Scott and Stephen B. Withey.
The strange case of Alger Hiss The Earl Jowitt - Jowitt, William Allen Jowitt
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 University of Sussex Library Special Collections: Leonard Woolf Archive
Letter to Sir William Jowitt offering services for work on international side of reconstruction and Jowitt's reply (1942).
Williams of Bank Officers Guild and others; and a letter of apology from Aneurin Bevan for review of book by Pat Sloan in Tribune.
W.E. Williams, Bureau of Current Affairs (2) and replies by LW (2) regarding article on "The Claim of Politics" for General Election of 1950.
www.sussex.ac.uk /library/speccoll/collection_catalogues/woolf.html   (10874 words)

  
 Andrew Scott: Anglo-American Relations (January 1943)
Sir William Jowitt concluded the above statement with the pious hope that:
In reality, of course, this deficit could not be allowed to materialise as a deficit, but its equivalent in imports would have to be kept out of the country.
The results of this in the war against Sir William Beveridge’s Giant “Want” can be imagined.
www.marxists.org /history/etol/newspape/win/vol05/no08/scott.htm   (4463 words)

  
 LRB | E.S. Turner : Petting Cafés!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Under lighting restriction orders, a Naval officer at Yarmouth was fined for striking matches in a telephone box to read the dial.
Ignorance of regulations was no excuse, as the Solicitor-General, Sir William Jowitt, informed many an offender, but when he was hauled up for supplying animal food without coupons to his farm in Kent he protested that he 'had not the smallest knowledge' that rules were being broken.
As he was a person of 'the highest respectability' no penalty was sought.
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 NPG x122214; William Allen Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
NPG x122214; William Allen Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)
1 of 18 portraits of William Allen Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt
William Allen Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt (1885-1957), Lord Chancellor.
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