Sir Constant Hendrik de Waal, KCB, QC (1 May 1931 – 1 October 2016), known as Sir Henry de Waal, was a British-Dutch-Austrian lawyer and parliamentary draftsman.
[2] He attended Tonbridge School between 1944 and 1948,[3] and then Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating with a BA in law in 1951, and then a postgraduate LLB the following year.
[6] De Waal was a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, between 1958 and 1960, when he joined the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel.
He retired in 1996,[1] by which time he had been appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath[7] and a bencher of Lincoln's Inn (both in 1989),[1] a Queen's Counsel (in 1988),[8] and an honorary fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
[1] De Waal died on 1 October 2016, leaving behind a widow and two children.