Mark Saville, Baron Saville of Newdigate

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Mark Oliver Saville, Baron Saville of Newdigate, PC (born 1936) is a British Law Lord.

He was educated at Rye Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he won the Vinerian Scholarship. He became a barrister in 1962 and a Queen's Counsel in 1975. He was appointed a Judge of the High Court in 1985 and a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1994. In 1997 he became a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, receiving a life peerage as Baron Saville of Newdigate, of Newdigate in the County of Surrey.

On 29 January 1998 he was appointed to chair the Bloody Sunday Inquiry into the events of 30 January 1972 in Derry, Northern Ireland.

In his Inquiry he commissioned many Experts to IInvestigate the events of Bloody Sunday. The results produced were revolutionary, claiming that all protesters were unarmed.