Fenton Atkinson

He was the judge who oversaw the trial of the Moors murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, at Chester Assizes in 1966.

He served in the Royal Norfolk Regiment in the Second World War, receiving an emergency commission, and achieving the substantive rank of Major and acting Brigadier by September 1943.

He also served with the British Military Government in occupied Germany after the War, and participated in the Nuremberg trials.

He was appointed as a Queen's Counsel in 1953, and became a judge in Salford Hundred Court of Record the same year.

He was appointed as a High Court judge in 1960, serving in the Queen's Bench Division, and received the customary knighthood.