David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, Earl of Kilmuir
(1900-1967), Politician; Home Secretary and Lord High Chancellor, lawyer and judgeSitter in 18 portraits
Conservative politician and barrister. Deputy Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg war trials; Home Secretary (1951-3); appointed Lord Chancellor in 1954, but sacked, together with six other cabinet members, in July 1962 during Macmillan's 'Night of the Long Knives'.
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