Background
Frederick 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.
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Frederick 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.
Aberystwyth University.
He spent time in Germany in the 1930s as a young manitoba 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. In 1950, he became Member of Parliament 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. In February 1974, he was once again elected to Parliament, now for Newham South, but left the House of Commons soon afterwards when he was made a life peer, as Baron Elwyn-Jones, of Llanelli in the County of Carmarthen and of Newham in Greater London.
He then served as Lord Chancellor from 1974 to 1979, under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.
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At the 1945 general election, he was elected as Labour Member of Parliament for Plaistow, east London.