William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt

The Right Honourable
The Earl Jowitt
PC KC
The Right Honourable The Earl Jowitt PC KC
	Jowitt in 1940
Lord Chancellor
	In office; 27 July 1945 – 26 October 1951
Monarch	George VI
Prime Minister	Clement Attlee
Preceded by	The Viscount Simon
Succeeded by	The Lord Simonds
Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords; Shadow Leader of the House of Lords
	In office; 1952 – 14 December 1955
Party Leader	Clement Attlee; Herbert Morrison (acting); Hugh Gaitskell
Preceded by	The Viscount Addison
Succeeded by	The Earl Alexander of Hillsborough
Prime Minister
Ministerial offices
Paymaster General
	In office; 4 March 1942 – 1942
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill
Preceded by	Maurice Hankey
Succeeded by	Frederick Lindemann, 1st Baron Cherwell
Solicitor-General for England
	In office; 15 May 1940 – 4 March 1942
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill
Preceded by	Terence O'Connor
Succeeded by	David Maxwell Fyfe
Attorney-General for England
	In office; 7 June 1929 – 26 January 1932
Prime Minister	Ramsay MacDonald
Preceded by	Thomas Inskip
Succeeded by	Thomas Inskip
Preceded by
Parliamentary offices
Member of the House of Lords
	Lord Temporal
	Life peerage; 2 August 1945 – 16 August 1957
Member of Parliament ; for Ashton-under-Lyne
	In office; 28 October 1939 – 2 August 1945
Preceded by	Fred Simpson
Succeeded by	Hervey Rhodes
Member of Parliament for Preston
	In office; 30 May 1929 – 27 October 1931 Serving with Tom Shaw
Preceded by	Alfred Ravenscroft Kennedy; Tom Shaw
Succeeded by	William Kirkpatrick; Adrian Moreing
Member of Parliament ; for The Hartlepools
	In office; 15 November 1922 – 29 October 1924
Preceded by	W. G. Howard Gritten
Succeeded by	Wilfrid Sugden
Personal details
Born	15 April 1885; Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England
Died	16 August 1957 (aged 72); Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Political party	Labour; National Labour; Liberal;
Spouse	Lesley McIntyre (m. 1913)
Alma mater	New College, Oxford

William Allen Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt, PC, KC (15 April 1885 – 16 August 1957) was a British Liberal Party, National Labour and then Labour Party politician and lawyer who served as Lord Chancellor under Clement Attlee from 1945 to 1951.