Sir William Lloyd Mars-Jones, MBE was a Welsh barrister and High Court judge.
14 Facts About William Mars-Jones
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William Mars-Jones was educated at Denbigh County School and University College Wales, Aberystwyth, where he took a First in Law and president of the Union.
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William Mars-Jones then took a second degree at St John's College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Footlights.
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William Mars-Jones joined Gray's Inn, but the Second World War broke out before he could be called to the bar.
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William Mars-Jones served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, reaching the rank of lieutenant commander, and was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1945.
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William Mars-Jones contested Denbigh as a Labour candidate in the 1945 election.
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William Mars-Jones was appointed to the High Court in 1969 and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division, receiving the customary knighthood.
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William Mars-Jones presided over a number of high-profile criminal trials.
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William Mars-Jones presided over the corruption trial of three men in Liverpool Crown Court over the building of Kirkby Ski Slope in spring 1978.
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William Mars-Jones retired in 1990, upon reaching the age of 75.
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William Mars-Jones served as president of the University College of North Wales between 1982 and 1995.
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William Mars-Jones was a Member of the Aberystwyth Old Students' Association and served as President.
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William Mars-Jones married Sheila Mary Felicity Cobon in 1947; they had three sons.
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The novelist and literary critic Adam William Mars-Jones is his son; he published Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father, a memoir about his complex relationship with his father, in 2015.