Emlyn Hooson, Baron Hooson

Hugh Emlyn Hooson, Baron Hooson QC (26 March 1925 – 21 February 2012) was a Welsh Liberal and then Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Montgomeryshire from 1962 until 1979.

Hooson was born at Colomendy in Denbighshire, the son of Hugh and Elsie Hooson. He was educated at Denbigh Grammar School and read law at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. He served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, on a corvette in the north Atlantic.

He became a barrister, called to the bar by Gray's Inn in 1949, and in 1960 became one of the youngest ever Queen's Counsel, aged just 35 years old.

He was chairman of the Flint Quarter Sessions from 1960 and Merioneth Quarter Sessions from 1962, and a member of the Bar Council from 1965.

As QC, Hooson represented Ian Brady, one of the "Moors Murderers" along with Myra Hindley, when Brady was tried and convicted on 3 murder charges at Chester Crown Court in spring 1966.

In 1970 he appeared for the Ministry of Defence at a public inquiry over plans to move its experimental range from Shoeburyness to Pembrey, near Carmarthen.

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