Charles Jauncey, Baron Jauncey of Tullichettle

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Charles Eliot Jauncey, Baron Jauncey of Tullichettle PC (born 8 May 1925) is a British judge and advocate.

The son of Captain John Henry Jauncey and Muriel Dundas was educated at Radley College, at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in jurisprudence in 1947, and at the University of Glasgow , where he received a Bachelor of Laws in 1949.

Jauncey served in the Royal Naval Reserve from 1943 to 1946, and fought in the Second World War, reaching the rank of Sub-Lieutenant. In 1949, he was made an advocate of the Scottish Bar, in 1954, he became a Standing Junior Counsel to Admiralty and in 1963 a Queen's Counsel for Scotland. From 1955 to 1971, he was Kintyre Pursuivant of Arms, from 1971 to 1974 Sheriff Principal of Fife and Kinross and from 1972 to 1979 Judge of the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey.

Made a Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland in 1979, Jauncey held this post until 1988, when he was appointed to the Privy Council. In the same year he became a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was created a life peer with the title Baron Jauncey of Tullichettle, of Comrie in the District of Perth and Kinross. In 1996, he retired as Lord of Appeal. He has often been praised as one of the finest legal minds of his generation in Scotland, and his legal opinions - both as a practising advocate and as a judge - commanded immense respect.

Jauncey was a member of the Royal Company of Archers in 1951, and member of the Historic Buildings Council for Scotland between 1972 and 1992. He is a Honorary Student of Christ Church Oxford.

He has married thrice, firstly Jean Cunninghame Graham in 1948, and after their divorce in 1969, he married secondly Elizabeth Ballingal in 1973. Again divorced in 1977, he married thirdly Camilla Cathcart in 1977. He has two sons and one daughter by his first wife, and one daughter, by his third wife.