Terence Donovan, Baron Donovan

Terence Norbert Donovan, Baron Donovan PC JP (13 June 1898 – 12 December 1971) was a British Labour Party politician and later a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.[1][2][3]

This article is about the British politician and judge. For others named Terence Donovan, see Terence Donovan (disambiguation).

The Right Honourable
The Lord Donovan
PC JP
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
In office
1964–1971
Preceded byThe Lord Salmon
Member of Parliament for Leicester North East
Leicester East 1945-1950
In office
1945–1950
Preceded byAbraham Lyons
Succeeded bySir Lynn Ungoed-Thomas
Personal details
Born
Terence Norbert Donovan

(1898-06-13)13 June 1898
West Ham, London
Died12 December 1971(1971-12-12) (aged 73)
City of London
Political partyLabour

Biography

Born in West Ham, London, Donovan was educated at Brockley Grammar School, before serving in the Bedfordshire Regiment and the Royal Air Force during World War I. After demobilisation, he joined the Civil Service. He was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1924, although he did not begin practising at the bar until 1932.

Donovan was elected as Member of Parliament for Leicester East in the 1945 general election, and took silk the same year. When that constituency was abolished for the 1950 general election, he was re-elected for the new Leicester North East constituency.

However, Donovan resigned from the House of Commons within weeks of the election, when he was appointed as a High Court judge, receiving the customary knighthood (his successor, Sir Lynn Ungoed-Thomas, also became a judge, in 1962). He was promoted to the Court of Appeal in 1960, when he also became a Privy Counsellor. On 11 January 1964 he was appointed as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, remaining in post until 1971. As a Law Lord he was given a life peerage as Baron Donovan, of Winchester in the County of Hampshire.[4]

In 1965-68, he chaired the Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers' Associations (the so-called "Donovan commission") on the system of collective UK labour law. He died in the City of London aged 73.

Arms
Coat of arms of Terence Donovan, Baron Donovan
Crest
A grenade Sable fired proper winged Azure.
Escutcheon
Quarterly Gules and Ermine an open book proper bound and edged Or.
Supporters
On a compartment on either side upon the stock of a tree sprouting a peregrine falcon rising Proper.[5]

References
  1. Hepple, Bob. "Donovan, Terence Norbert, Baron Donovan". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31042. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. "Lord Donovan". The Times. 13 December 1971. p. 14.
  3. "Lord Donovan". The Daily Telegraph. 14 December 1971. p. 10.
  4. "No. 43219". The London Gazette. 14 January 1964. p. 385.
  5. Baz Manning. Middle Temple Armory.
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