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Frederick Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones

The Right Honourable
The Lord Elwyn-Jones
CH PC
Elwyn Jones in Romania (cropped).jpg
Shadow Lord Chancellor
In office
2 October 1983 – 9 January 1989
Leader Neil Kinnock
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by The Lord Mishcon
Lord Chancellor
In office
5 March 1974 – 4 May 1979
Prime Minister Harold Wilson
James Callaghan
Preceded by The Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone
Succeeded by The Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone
Attorney General for England and Wales
In office
16 October 1964 – 19 June 1970
Prime Minister Harold Wilson
Preceded by John Hobson
Succeeded by Peter Rawlinson
Member of Parliament
for Newham South
In office
28 February 1974 – 11 March 1974
Preceded by Constituency established
Succeeded by Nigel Spearing
Member of Parliament
for West Ham South
In office
23 February 1950 – 28 February 1974
Preceded by Constituency established
Succeeded by Constituency abolished
Member of Parliament
for Plaistow
In office
5 July 1945 – 23 February 1950
Preceded by Will Thorne
Succeeded by Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born (1909-10-24)24 October 1909
Llanelli, Wales, UK
Died 4 December 1989(1989-12-04) (aged 80)
Brighton, England, UK
Political party Labour
Spouse(s) Pearl Binder (1937–1989)
Alma mater Aberystwyth University
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
City Law School

Frederick Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones, CH, PC (24 October 1909 – 4 December 1989), known as Elwyn Jones, was a Welsh barrister and Labour politician.

Elwyn Jones was born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, read history for one year at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and then at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He spent time in Germany in the 1930s as a young man.

He became a barrister and Recorder of Merthyr Tydfil. He was also a broadcaster and journalist. He served as junior British Counsel during the Nuremberg Trials, and led for the prosecution (Leading Prosecutor) at the Hamburg trial of Marshal Erich von Manstein in 1948.

In 1966, he led the prosecution of the Moors murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.

At the 1945 general election, he was elected as Labour Member of Parliament for Plaistow, east London. In 1950, he became MP for West Ham South, serving until 1974. In 1964, Elwyn Jones was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed Attorney General (receiving the customary knighthood) by Harold Wilson, a post he held until 1970.


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