Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne
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The Right Honourable The Viscount Dilhorne PC QC |
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Manningham-Buller in 1961.
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| Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain | |
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In office 13 July 1962 – 16 October 1964 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister |
Harold Macmillan Sir Alec Douglas-Home |
| Preceded by | The Viscount Kilmuir |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Gardiner |
| Attorney General for England and Wales | |
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In office 18 October 1954 – 16 July 1962 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister |
Sir Winston Churchill Sir Anthony Eden Harold Macmillan |
| Preceded by | Sir Lionel Heald |
| Succeeded by | Sir John Hobson |
| Solicitor General | |
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In office 3 November 1951 – 18 October 1954 |
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| Monarch |
George VI Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | Winston Churchill |
| Preceded by | Lynn Ungoed-Thomas |
| Succeeded by | Sir Harry Hylton-Foster |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1 August 1905 Amersham, Buckinghamshire |
| Died | 7 September 1980 (aged 75) |
| Nationality | English |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Lady Mary Lindsay (1910–2004) |
| Alma mater | Magdalen College, Oxford |
Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne, PC, QC (1 August 1905 – 7 September 1980), known as Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, Bt, from 1954 to 1962 and as The Lord Dilhorne from 1962 to 1964, was an English lawyer and Conservative politician. He served as Lord Chancellor from 1962 to 1964.
Born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, Manningham-Buller was the only son of Sir Mervyn Manningham-Buller, 3rd Baronet, grandson of Sir Edward Manningham-Buller, 1st Baronet, of Dilhorne Hall, Staffordshire, a junior member of the Yarde-Buller family headed by Baron Churston. His mother was the Hon. Lilah Constance, Lady Manningham-Buller OBE, daughter of Charles Cavendish, 3rd Baron Chesham and granddaughter of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster.
His uncle's seat of Dilhorne Hall having passed to an heiress ineligible for the baronetcy, Manningham-Buller grew up in Northamptonshire. (Although now pronounced "Dill-horn" by locals, he preferred the older pronunciation of "Dill-urn".) He was educated at Eton College, where he caused a fellow pupil to be expelled for making advances to another boy. He then attended Magdalen College, Oxford, before being called to the Bar in 1927.
Manningham-Buller was elected to the House of Commons in a 1943 by-election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Daventry. He was briefly a junior minister in the government of Winston Churchill before it lost power in the general election of 1945, and became a King's Counsel in 1947. In 1950, his seat became Northamptonshire South. When Churchill regained power in 1951 Dilhorne was knighted and became Solicitor-General; in 1954 he was sworn of the Privy Council and became Attorney General for England and Wales. In 1956 he succeeded his father as fourth Baronet.
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