Elwyn-Jones, Lord (1909-1989), was lord chancellor in the Labour government of the United Kingdom from 1974 to 1979. He served as attorney general from 1964 to 1970.
Frederick Elwyn Jones was born on Oct. 24, 1909, in Llanelli, Dyfed, Wales. He was educated at Llanelli Grammar School and University College, Aberystwyth. He then attended Cambridge University, where he became president of Cambridge Union. Elwyn Jones became a barrister (lawyer qualified to argue cases in the highest British courts) in 1935. Ten years later, he was elected to Parliament, and in 1946, he became parliamentary private secretary to the attorney general. He served as a prosecutor during the Nuremburg Trials following World War II (1939-1945). Elwyn Jones was knighted in 1964, and he was made a baron in 1974, when he became known as Lord Elwyn-Jones. Just before World War II, he wrote three books. The best known of the three is Hitler’s Drive to the East (1937). He died on Dec. 4, 1989.
