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Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne

The Right Honourable
The Viscount Dilhorne
PC QC
Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, Bt.jpg
Manningham-Buller in 1961.
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
In office
13 July 1962 – 16 October 1964
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
In office
18 October 1954 – 16 July 1962
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
In office
3 November 1951 – 18 October 1954
Monarch George VI
Elizabeth II
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Preceded by Lynn Ungoed-Thomas
Succeeded by Sir Harry Hylton-Foster
Personal details
Born (1905-08-01)1 August 1905
Amersham, Buckinghamshire
Died 7 September 1980(1980-09-07) (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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