Sir David Charles Calcutt QC (2 November 1930 – 11 August 2004) was an eminent barrister and public servant, knighted in 1991.
Calcutt was born at Marlow, Buckinghamshire, where his father, Henry,[2] a pharmacist, ran a local high-street chemist's shop.
[6] Calcutt was known throughout the 1980s and 1990s for preparing reports and inquiries into various areas of public life.
He was asked to produce a report on a fire in the Falkland Islands in which eight people died, then soon afterwards to produce a report into the Cyprus Seven spy affair, in which seven servicemen were acquitted of having passed secrets to the Russians.
[9] In later life Calcutt developed Parkinson's disease, but he remained "cheerful and genial".