Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones

For the British television scriptwriter, see Elwyn Jones (writer)

Frederick Elwyn Elwyn-Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones, CH PC (24 October 1909–4 December 1989) was a British barrister and politician.

Jones read law at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He became a barrister and Recorder of Merthyr Tydfil. He was also a broadcaster and journalist. He served as junior British Counsel during the Nuremberg Trials and the Hamburg trial of Marshal Erich von Manstein in 1945-6. He had spent time in Germany in the 1930s as a young man.

Jones was appointed by Harold Wilson as Attorney General for England and Wales, serving from 1964 to 1970. During this time, he led the prosecution of the Moors murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. In February 1974, he was once again elected to Parliament, now for Newham South, but left the House of Commons soon afterwards when he was made a life peer, as Baron Elwyn-Jones, of Llanelli in the County of Carmarthen and of Newham in Greater London.

He became Lord Chancellor from 1974 to 1979, under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan. He became a Privy Counsellor in 1964.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by: Will Thorne	Member of Parliament for Plaistow 1945–1950	Succeeded by: (constituency abolished)
Preceded by: (new constituency)	Member of Parliament for West Ham South 1950–1974	Succeeded by: (constituency abolished)
Preceded by: (new constituency)	Member of Parliament for Newham South 1974–1974	Succeeded by: Nigel Spearing
Political offices
Preceded by: John Hobson	Attorney General 1964–1970	Succeeded by: Peter Rawlinson
Preceded by: The Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone	Lord Chancellor 1974–1979	Succeeded by: The Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone