Dingle Foot

The Right Honourable Sir Dingle Foot QC
Solicitor General for England and Wales
In office 18 October 1964 – 24 August 1967
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	Sir Peter Rawlinson
Succeeded by	Sir Arthur Irvine
Member of Parliament for Ipswich
In office 24 October 1957 – 18 June 1970
Preceded by	Richard Stokes
Succeeded by	Ernle Money
Member of Parliament for Dundee
In office 27 October 1931 – 5 July 1945
Preceded by	Edwin Scrymgeour
Succeeded by	John Strachey
Personal details
Born	24 August 1905
Died	18 June 1978
Political party	Labour (After 1956)
Other political affiliations	Liberal (Before 1956)

Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot, QC (24 August 1905 – 18 June 1978) was a British lawyer, Liberal and Labour Member of Parliament, and Solicitor General for England and Wales in the first government of Harold Wilson.

Born in Plymouth, Devon, Foot was educated at Bembridge School, a boys' independent school on the Isle of Wight, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford Union in 1928. Foot was admitted to the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn on 19 November 1925 and called to degree of utter Barrister by the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn on 2 July 1930. He became a Master Bencher in 1952 and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1954. He had been in active practice after having qualified a Barrister of England both in England and in several Commonwealth countries. He was called to the Bar or admitted as a solicitor or practitioner in the following countries such as Ghana (1948), Sri Lanka (1951), Northern Rhodesia (1956), Sierra Leone (1959), Supreme Court of India (as a Senior Advocate) (1960), Bahrain (1962) and Malaysia (1964). He also appeared regularly in the Courts of Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, Nyasaland and Pakistan. In addition, he had been regularly engaged in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council since 1945.

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