David Maxwell Fyfe 1st Earl of Kilmuir Politician

David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, GCVO, PC, QC (29 May 1900 – 27 January 1967), known as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe from 1942 to 1954 and as the Viscount Kilmuir from 1954 to 1962, was a British Conservative politician, lawyer and judge who combined an industrious and precocious legal career with political ambitions that took him to the offices of Solicitor General, Attorney General, Home Secretary and Lord High Chancellor of Great BritainOne of the prosecutors at the Nuremberg Trials, he was instrumental in drafting the European Convention on Human Rights. However, he was also a controversial Home Secretary who refused clemency to commute Derek Bentley's highly controversial death sentence. His political ambitions were ultimately dashed in Harold Macmillan's cabinet reshuffle of July 1962.

Personal facts

Birth date	May 29, 1900
Birth place	Edinburgh , Scotland , United Kingdom
Nationality	British people
Date of death	January 27, 1967
Place of death	England , Sussex , United Kingdom , Withyham
Education	Balliol College Oxford

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Office holder

monarch	Elizabeth II
party	Conservative Party (UK)
prime minister	Winston Churchill Harold Macmillan Anthony Eden
successor	Gwilym Lloyd George 1st Viscount Tenby Walter Monckton 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Hartley Shawcross Baron Shawcross Reginald Manningham-Buller 1st Viscount Dilhorne