15 Facts About Cyril Radcliffe

Cyril Radcliffe served as the first chancellor of the University of Warwick from its foundation in 1965 to 1977.

Cyril Radcliffe was then conscripted in World War I but his poor eyesight limited the options for service so he was allocated to the Labour Corps.

Cyril Radcliffe was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1924, and joined the chambers of Wilfred Greene, later the Master of the Rolls.

Cyril Radcliffe practised at the Chancery bar, and was appointed a King's Counsel in 1935.

Cyril Radcliffe was given the task of drawing the borders for the new nations of Pakistan and India in a way that would leave as many Sikhs and Hindus in India and Muslims in Pakistan as possible.

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Cyril Radcliffe submitted his partition map on 9 August 1947, which split apart Punjab and Bengal almost in half.

Cyril Radcliffe's efforts saw some 14 million people – roughly seven million from each side – flee across the border when they discovered the new boundaries left them in the "wrong" country.

Cyril Radcliffe was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1948.

In 1949, Cyril Radcliffe was made a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, sworn of the Privy Council, and created a life peer as Baron Cyril Radcliffe, of Werneth in the County of Lancaster.

Cyril Radcliffe chaired the Committee of Enquiry into the Future of the British Film Institute, whose recommendations led to the modernisation of the BFI in the post-war period.

From 1957 he was chairman of the Cyril Radcliffe Committee, called to enquire into the working of the monetary and credit system.

Cyril Radcliffe was a frequent public speaker and wrote numerous books: he gave the BBC Reith Lecture in 1951 – a series of seven broadcasts titled Power and the State which examined the features of democratic society, and considered the problematic notions of power and authority.

Cyril Radcliffe presented the Oxford University Romanes Lecture in 1963 on Mountstuart Elphinstone.

Lord Cyril Radcliffe married Antonia Mary Roby, daughter of Godfrey Benson, 1st Baron Charnwood and former wife of John Tennant, in 1939.

Cyril Radcliffe had no issue and the viscountcy of Radcliffe became extinct on his death.