18 Facts About James Fawcett

James Fawcett was a member of the European Commission for Human Rights from 1962 to 1984, and its president from 1972 to 1981, and was knighted in 1984.

James Fawcett is a grandfather of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

James Fawcett was the son of Joseph Fawcett, a clergyman in the Church of England from a family of old Yorkshire gentry, and Edith.

James Fawcett was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and at Rugby School, and then read classics at New College, Oxford.

James Fawcett won a prize fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, and was again a fellow at All Souls from 1961 to 1969.

James Fawcett won the Eldon Law Scholarship and was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1938.

James Fawcett worked practising as a barrister on the North-eastern Circuit.

James Fawcett was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in 1942 for sinking an Italian destroyer.

James Fawcett was a member of the UK's delegation to the United Nations in New York from 1948 to 1950, and worked in the British Embassy in Washington, DC James Fawcett assisted with the writing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

James Fawcett returned to private practice as a barrister in 1950, at the chambers led by John Galway Foster at 2 Hare Court.

James Fawcett appeared for the UK at the International Court of Justice at The Hague several times.

James Fawcett was general counsel to the International Monetary Fund from 1955 to 1960, and he was a member of the European Commission of Human Rights from 1962 to 1984, serving as its president from 1972 to 1982.

James Fawcett was director of studies at the Royal Institute of International Affairs from 1969 to 1973, and professor of international law at King's College London from 1976 to 1980.

James Fawcett published several books, including International Law and the Uses of Outer Space in 1968, The Law of Nations, an introduction to international law, in 1968, and The Application of the European Convention on Human Rights, an article by article commentary on the Convention, in 1969.

James Fawcett became a member of the Institut de Droit International in 1973.

James Fawcett was appointed Knight Bachelor in the 1984 Birthday Honours, and took silk to become a Queen's Counsel in 1985.

James Fawcett married Frances Beatrice Lowe, the daughter of Elias Avery Lowe and Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, in St Pancras in 1937.

James Fawcett died at Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford after suffering a stroke, survived by his wife and five children.