Donald Finnemore

Sir Donald Leslie Finnemore (13 June 1889 – 10 May 1974), was a British judge and Liberal Party politician.

He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Pembroke College, Oxford (Scholar).

He was awarded a First Class in Jurisprudence and Proxime accessit for the Vinerian Law Scholarship at Oxford.

[1] He was called by Inner Temple (Prize for Constitutional Law and Legal History) in 1914 and worked on the Midland Circuit.

[2] as defending counsel for Alfred Rouse, who was convicted of the murder of an unknown man and hanged.

He was Judge of the High Court (Queen's Bench Division), 1948–64, during which time he presided over the trial of the serial killer John Christie in 1953.

He was able to increase the party vote share; He was again Liberal candidate for the Stourbridge Division of Worcestershire at the 1931 General Election.