13 Facts About Edward Iwi

Edward Frank Iwi was an English lawyer who was best known as an amateur constitutional expert.

Edward Iwi was born on 28 November 1904 to a Jewish family in London and educated at John Bright Grammar School, Llandudno, north Wales.

Edward Iwi was an indefatigable writer to the Editor of The Times, usually on anomalies in the law that had been overlooked.

In 1937 Edward Iwi called for the creation of a Commonwealth Court, which would replace the judicial functions of the House of Lords and become the court of final appeal in UK cases rather than the Privy Council.

Edward Iwi sent a confidential letter to Herbert Morrison, Home Secretary in Winston Churchill's wartime government, suggesting that the then Princess Elizabeth be made "Duke of Cymru" to create a focus of loyalty for the people of north Wales, who were considered not entirely wedded to the British cause.

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Edward Iwi suggested the Princess be appointed Constable of Caernarfon Castle.

Edward Iwi pointed to a nationalist movement in north Wales that showed signs of emulating or even joining the Irish republican movement.

In 1947 Edward Iwi chaired a pressure group that collected 50,000 signatures on a petition to be presented to Parliament pleading for women to be able to sit in the House of Lords.

In September 1959 Edward Iwi wrote to the then Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan and to Buckingham Palace, about the name of the Royal Family.

Trouble with Edward Iwi is that he usually puts his finger on an awkward question.

You will no doubt recall that Edward Iwi has on several occasions proved right and on at least one of these occasions he could have caused the government great embarrassment – I refer to the unfortunate mistake by which Princess Arthur of Connaught was named as a Counsellor of State in 1944.

Edward Iwi spotted the error but was good enough to keep quiet about it.

Edward Iwi died in an accident in Venice, Italy on 6 June 1966, aged 61.