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Tom Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill

The Right Honourable
The Lord Bingham of Cornhill
KG PC QC FBA
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Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
In office
6 June 2000 – 30 September 2008
Monarch Elizabeth II
Deputy The Lord Slynn of Hadley
The Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead
The Lord Hoffmann
Preceded by The Lord Browne-Wilkinson
Succeeded by The Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers
14th Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
In office
4 June 1996 – 6 June 2000
Preceded by The Lord Taylor of Gosforth
Succeeded by The Lord Woolf
Master of the Rolls
In office
1 October 1992 – 4 June 1996
Preceded by The Lord Donaldson of Lymington
Succeeded by The Lord Woolf
Personal details
Born (1933-10-13)13 October 1933
Marylebone, London, UK
Died 11 September 2010(2010-09-11) (aged 76)
Boughrood, Powys, Wales
Nationality Flag of the United Kingdom.svg British
Spouse(s) Elizabeth Loxley (Lady Bingham of Cornhill)
Relations Viscount Downe;
Major Gerald Loxley (via wife)
Children The Hon. Mrs Norman (Katie)
The Hon. Harry Bingham
The Hon. Kit Bingham
Alma mater Balliol College, Oxford

Thomas Henry Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill, KG PC QC FBA (13 October 1933 – 11 September 2010), was an eminent British judge and jurist who served as Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice and Senior Law Lord. Widely regarded as the greatest lawyer of his generation,Baroness Hale observed that his pioneering role in the formation of the United Kingdom Supreme Court may be his most important and long-lasting legacy.Lord Phillips regarded Lord Bingham as 'one of the two great legal figures of my lifetime in the law'.

After retiring from HM judiciary in 2008, Lord Bingham focused on teaching and lecturing in human rights law. His book, The Rule of Law, was published in 2010 and posthumously won the 2011 Orwell Prize for Literature. The British Institute of International and Comparative Law named the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law in his honour.

Bingham was born at Marylebone in London. His parents, Thomas Henry Bingham (1901-1980) and Catherine (née Watterson; 1902–1989), practised as doctors in Reigate, Surrey. His father was born in Belfast; his mother was from California before being raised on the Isle of Man.


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