Terence Rowland Frazer Skemp, CB, QC (14 February 1915 – 15 March 1996) was a British lawyer and parliamentary draftsman.
He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1938,[5] and carried out pupillages in the chambers of Sir John Foster.
[1] The post-war Labour government's legislative programme was enabled by expanding the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel, which drafted bills.
He was also responsible for the Local Government Act 1972, which was the longest bill presented to Parliament up to that point.
He died on 15 March 1996, aged 85,[2] and was survived by his three children (from his marriage to Dorothy, née Pringle) and his partner Sandra, a graduate of Somerville College, Oxford, with whom he had lived for some years after separating from his wife.