Terence Donovan, Baron Donovan

Terence Norbert Donovan, Baron Donovan PC JP (13 June 1898 – 12 December 1971) was a British Labour Party politician and later a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.

[1][2][3] Born in West Ham, London, Donovan was educated at Brockley Grammar School, before serving in the Bedfordshire Regiment and the Royal Air Force during World War I.

However, Donovan resigned from the House of Commons within weeks of the election, when he was appointed as a High Court judge, receiving the customary knighthood (his successor, Sir Lynn Ungoed-Thomas, also became a judge, in 1962).

On 11 January 1964 he was appointed as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, remaining in post until 1971.

As a Law Lord he was given a life peerage as Baron Donovan, of Winchester in the County of Hampshire.