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Edward Frank Iwi (28 November 19046 June 1966) was an English lawyer who was best known as an amateur constitutional expert. Many of his opinions, while initially dismissed by the establishment, proved to be correct and caused official policy to be changed. Most notable was his advocacy for the Royal Family to adopt Prince Philip's surname of Mountbatten in lieu of Windsor, in order that any Royal children born after Queen Elizabeth II's accession in 1952 would not wear what he called "the Badge of Bastardy". ==Biography== Edward Iwi was born on 28 November 1904〔〔(Author and Book Info ). Retrieved 17 April 2014〕 in London and educated at John Bright Grammar School, Llandudno, Wales. In 1913 his widowed mother married Morris Wartski. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1927, and served as a Law Society examiner from 1938 to 1962.〔(''The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History'', p. 462 ). Retrieved 17 April 2014〕 He was an indefatigable writer to the Editor of ''The Times'', usually on anomalies in the law that had been overlooked. In 1937 he called for the creation of a Commonwealth Court, which would replace the judicial functions of the House of Lords and become the court of final appeal in UK cases rather than the Privy Council. During World War II he was calling for each Dominion to create its own Judicial Committee.〔(David B Swinfen, ''Imperial Appeal: The Debate on the Appeal to the Privy Council 1833–1986'', pp. 180, 184, 191 ). Retrieved 17 April 2014〕 In 1938 he was a co-author of ''The Courts of Justice: Volume 1 of Stephen's Commentaries on the laws of England''.〔(). Retrieved 17 April 2014〕 He sent a confidential letter to Herbert Morrison, Home Secretary in Winston Churchill's war-time government, suggesting that the then Princess Elizabeth be made "Duke of Cymru" to create a focus of loyalty for the people of north Wales, who were considered not entirely wedded to the British cause. He also suggested the Princess be appointed Constable of Caernarfon Castle.〔BBC News, 8 March 2005, ("Royal plans to beat nationalism" ). Retrieved 17 April 2014〕 Iwi pointed to a nationalist movement in north Wales that showed signs of emulating or even joining the Irish republican movement. Indeed, some of the more extreme members were already calling for Wales to be given dominion status.〔Tweedie, Neil (10 March 2005). ("Wartime plan to use Princess to woo Welsh", ''The Telegraph'' ). Retrieved 17 April 2014〕 Iwi's suggestions came to nothing. After World War II, Iwi helped with legal issues surrounding Jewish children who were in the custody of non-Jewish carers, and helped to return these children to the Jewish fold.〔 In 1947 Iwi chaired a pressure group that collected 50,000 signatures on a petition to be presented to Parliament pleading for women to be able to sit in the House of Lords.〔 This petition was never presented, because in 1949, for the first time, the House of Lords voted in favour of a motion to admit female hereditary Peers (although they did not finally gain the right until 1963),〔(''Women in the House of Lords'' ). Retrieved 17 April 2014〕 but he did participate in another petition that was presented to the House of Lords on 2 March 1948.〔(). Retrieved 17 April 1948〕 In the 1950s he called for Britain to adopt a new approach to the Commonwealth, to abandon her role as matriarch in favour of a sisterly role.〔 In 1956 he published a selection of essays titled ''Laws and Flaws: Lapses of the Legislators''.〔(Foreign Affairs, July 1957 ). Retrieved 17 April 2014〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward Iwi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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