James Fawcett (barrister)

Sir James Edmund Sandford Fawcett, DSC QC (16 April 1913 - 24 June 1991) was a British barrister. He was a member of the European Commission for Human Rights from 1962 to 1984, and its president from 1972 to 1981, and was knighted in 1984.

Fawcett was born in Wallingford, which was then in Berkshire. His father was a clergyman in the Church of England.

He was educated at The Dragon School in Oxford and at Rugby School, and then read classics at New College, Oxford. He won a prize fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, and was again a fellow at All Souls from 1961 to 1969.

Fawcett married Frances Beatrice Lowe, the daughter of Elias Avery Lowe and H. T. Lowe-Porter, in St Pancras in 1937. They had met many years before, while both pupils at The Dragon School. They had one son and four daughters. One of their daughters was Charlotte Johnson Wahl, artist and mother of Mayor of London Boris Johnson, Rachel Johnson, and Jo Johnson MP and Leo Johnson.

He won the Eldon law scholarship and was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1938. He worked practising as a barrister on the North-eastern Circuit.

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