Peter Anthony Grayson Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, (26 June 1919 – 28 June 2006) was an English

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politician and author. He served as

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for

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for 23 years, from 1955 to 1978, and held the offices of Solicitor General (1962–1964) and

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(1970–1974) and for

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(1972–1974). Had he been appointed

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, as seemed likely during the mid-1970s, he would have been the first

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to hold that position since

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in 1532.

Early life

Rawlinson was born in

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'', 30 June 2006 on 26 June 1919. He was the son of

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A. R. Rawlinson Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Richard Rawlinson, OBE (9 August 1894 – 20 April 1984) was a British Army officer who served on the Western Front, and then in military intelligence in both World Wars. He served as head of MI.9a, and of MI.19. In ...

OBE, a figure in

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and a

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. He was educated by

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monks at Downside, near

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. He read Law at

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, where he joined the

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. He was later elected as an Honorary Fellow of his college in 1981. However, he only completed one year at the university, moving on to the

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, on the outbreak of the

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in 1939. He joined the

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in 1940. In 1943, he was wounded in battle while serving in North Africa and

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. He was

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as a

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in 1946.

Legal career

Rawlinson was called to the bar at

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in 1946, just before he left the Army. He later became a

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in 1962 and was Treasurer in 1984. He joined the chambers of

Walter Monckton Walter Turner Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, (17 January 1891 – 9 January 1965) was a British lawyer and politician. Early years Monckton was born in the village of Plaxtol in north Kent. He was the eldest child of paper m ...

. The first of his cases that came to public attention was that of Alfred Charles Whiteway, in the Towpath murder case in 1953, in which he was junior counsel. He subjected the leading police murder squad detective,

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, to a searching cross-examination over 2 days, which exposed substantial gaps in Hannam's account of a confession by Whiteway. Whiteway was convicted and hanged, but Rawlinson was instructed in other well-known cases. He was also a junior counsel in the unsuccessful defence of

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, tried with Edward Montagu and

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for gross indecency in 1954. A year later in 1955, he was junior counsel for

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in the defence of Ruth Ellis, who was hanged. He also acted in defence of

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in a

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case. He

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in 1959. He was

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from 1961 to 1962, and Recorder of

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from 1975 to 2002. He was Leader of the Western Circuit from 1975 to 1982. In 1965, he defended the ''

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'' in an action relating to

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Political career

A member of the Conservative Party, he stood as a Parliamentary candidate for Hackney South in the 1951 general election, losing in a landslide to the Labour incumbent, Herbert Butler. He was elected in the 1955 general election for the safe Conservative seat of

, and held the seat until it was abolished at the February 1974 general election. He was re-elected for the new

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seat, which he held until his ennoblement in 1978. He was appointed Solicitor-General by

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in June 1962, following the

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, receiving the customary

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, and served through the prosecution of the

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(and subsequent resignation of a junior minister,

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) and the

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, in which his offer to resign was declined. He was sworn of the

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in the

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, and remained on the

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es in opposition, after the government lost the 1964 general election, but returned to the back benches after unsuccessfully supporting

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as new party leader. From the back benches, he led the opposition to the abolition of the

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. He served as

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during the government of

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, from 1970 to 1974. Unusually, he conducted many prosecutions in person, including that of the Hosein brothers for kidnapping and murdering

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(whom they had mistaken for

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's wife). He appeared before the

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, arguing that ''

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'' was in contempt of court in publishing details of the cases involving

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, which drew the ire, in particular, of

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, who wrote that he appeared to want the law to be administered in private. He also prosecuted IRA members for bombings in London and

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. In 1972, when the Stormont Parliament was suspended, he also became

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, and so was called to the bar and became a QC in Northern Ireland that year. He was a target of the

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, which attempted to bomb his house several times.

Retirement

He retired from the

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in 1978, and was created a

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on 17 April 1978 as Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, of

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in the

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. He harboured hopes of being appointed

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(the law having been changed in 1974 to permit a Roman Catholic to take the former position, widely seen at the time as a measure to permit Rawlinson to take the job) but his politics diverged from those of the new Conservative leader,

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, and he was never offered either position. In the Lords, he supported restrictions on abortion and divorce, and resisted the introduction of conditional fees in legal cases. After retiring he defended the ''

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'' in a libel action brought by the

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in 1980, and retired from practice at the bar in 1985, but was President of the Senate of Inns of Court and the Bar from 1986 to 1987. He was also an Honorary Member of the

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, and an Honorary Fellow of the

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Other interests

He was also an author, having published a book of

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in 1943, his

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in 1989, books on themes inspired by his Catholic faith, and several novels on legal themes; one, ''Hatred and Contempt,'' won the Rumpole Award. He also enjoyed

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and the theatre. He was a member of

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and the

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, the vice-president of the

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, and president of the Friends of

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from 1980 to 1995. He was also a director of

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Family

He was married twice: # Haidee Kavanagh (1940–1954) (three daughters); (marriage dissolved and annulled by

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, Rome 1954) # Elaine Dominguez (1954–2006) (two sons and one daughter) His second wife was his first cousin, their mothers being daughters of Sir Henry Grayson.Burkes Peerage 106th edition pp 1212-3

Arms

Publications

* ''War Poems and Poetry'' 1943 * ''Public Duty and Personal Faith - the example of Thomas More'' 1978 * ''A Price Too High'' (autobiography) 1989 * ''The Jesuit Factor'' 1990 * ''The Colombia Syndicate'' (novel) 1991 * ''Hatred and Contempt'' (novel) 1992 * ''His Brother's Keeper'' (novel) 1993 * ''Indictment for Murder'' (novel) 1994 * ''The Caverel Claim'' (novel) 1998 * ''The Richmond Diary'' (novel) 2001 * ''A Relic of War'' (novel) 2004

References

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External links

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The Papers of Peter Rawlinson
held at

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