Baron Birkett

Baron Birkett, of Ulverston in the County Palatine of Lancaster, is a hereditary title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

[1] It was created on 31 January 1958 for the prominent lawyer Sir Norman Birkett.

He was one of the British judges at the Nuremberg Trials who later served as a Lord Justice of Appeal before becoming a Law Lord.

[2] On 3 April 2015, the title devolved upon Norman Birkett's grandson who became the third Baron, succeeding his father.

[3] There is no heir to the title.