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Peter Anthony Grayson Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, PC, QC (26 June 1919 – 28 June 2006) was an English barrister, politician and author. He was Conservative Member of Parliament for Epsom for 23 years, from 1955 to 1978, and held the offices of Solicitor General (1962–1964) and Attorney General for England and Wales (1970–1974) and for Northern Ireland (1972–1974). Had he been appointed Lord Chancellor, as seemed likely during the mid-1970s, he would have been the first Roman Catholic to hold that position since Thomas More in 1532. ==Early and private life== Rawlinson was born on 26 June 1919, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel A. R. Rawlinson OBE, a figure in military intelligence and a screenwriter in the cinema. He was educated by Benedictine monks at Downside, near Bath, and read Law at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he joined the Cambridge Footlights. He was later elected as an Honorary Fellow of his college in 1981. However, he only completed one year at the university, moving on to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, on the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. He joined the Irish Guards in 1940, where he remained until he was demobilized as a Major in 1946, having been Mentioned in Despatches in 1943. He was twice married: # Haidee Kavanagh (1940–1954) (three daughters); (marriage dissolved and annulled by Sacred Rota, Rome 1954) # Elaine Dominguez (1954–2006) (two sons and one daughter) He was also an author, having published a book of poetry in 1943, his autobiography in 1989, books on themes inspired by his Catholic faith, and several novels on legal themes; one, ''Hatred and Contempt,'' won the Rumpole Award. He also enjoyed landscape painting and the theatre. He was a member of White's and the Marylebone Cricket Club, the Vice-President of the Royal Automobile Club, and President of the Friends of London Oratory from 1980 to 1995. He was also a director of Daily Telegraph plc. 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「Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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