Harold Danckwerts

Sir Harold Otto Danckwerts PC (23 February 1888 – 12 June 1978) was a lawyer, then senior judge of England and Wales (1949–1969).

One of three sons and one daughter of William Otto Adolph Julius Danckwerts (German, but raised in South Africa and naturalised British) and Mary Caroline Lowther, Danckwerts was educated at Winchester College, Balliol College, Oxford, and Harvard University.

[1] In World War I he served with the East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry and the Machine Gun Corps, achieving the rank of Captain, and was mentioned in despatches.

[1] He was appointed a Justice of the Chancery Division of the High Court of England and Wales on 1 June 1949, and received the customary knighthood shortly after.

His part-time residence was 4 Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn and his probate was sworn in his year of death at £9,526 (equivalent to about £70,000 in 2023).