Thomas Bingham, Lord Bingham of Cornhill.
thomas bingham, born 1933
Lord Chief Justice
Thomas Bingham, Lord Bingham of Cornhill, was one of the greatest lawyers of his generation. After a career as a barrister in the commercial courts, he was successively Master of The Rolls, Lord Chief Justice, and Senior Law Lord. He was educated at Sedbergh School and Oxford University. After retiring from the judiciary in 2008, Bingham focused on teaching and lecturing in human rights law. His book, The Rule of Law, was published in 2010 and posthumously won the 2011 Orwell Prize for Literature.
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Source: A re-formatted transcript of an interview by Prof. Alan Macfarlane, reproduced with the permission of Prof. Macfarlane in 2020.