Cyril Radcliffe

The Right Honourable The Viscount Radcliffe
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
In office 1949–1964
Personal details
Born	30 March 1899 Llanychan, Denbighshire, Wales
Died	1 April 1977
Nationality	British
Spouse(s)	Hon. Antonia Mary Roby Benson
Alma mater	University of Oxford

Cyril John Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe GBE, PC, FBA (30 March 1899 – 1 April 1977) was a British lawyer and Law Lord best known for his role in the partition of British India. He served as the first Chancellor of the University of Warwick from its foundation in 1965 to 1977.

Radcliffe was born in Llanychan, Denbighshire, Wales, the son of a British Army captain. His maternal grandfather was the President of the Law Society between 1890 and 1891.

Radcliffe was educated at Haileybury College. He was then conscripted in World War I but his poor eyesight limited the options for service so he was allocated to the Labour Corps. After the War, he attended New College, Oxford as a scholar, and took a first in literae humaniores in 1921. In 1922 he was elected to a prize fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. He won the Eldon Law Scholarship in 1923.

He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1924, and joined the chambers of Wilfred Greene, later the Master of the Rolls. He practiced at the Chancery bar, and was appointed a King's Counsel in 1935.

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