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Basil Thomas Wigoder, Baron Wigoder QC (12 February 1921 – 12 August 2004) was a politician and barrister in the United Kingdom.
Wigoder, whose father was a dentist, and mother a judge, studied history at Oriel College, Oxford, after attending Manchester Grammar School. During World War II, he served between 1942 and 1945 in the Royal Artillery. On 14 August 1942 he was promoted to second Lieutenant. He served with the 30th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, and saw action in the Battle of Monte Cassino, the liberation of Rome, the Battle of Florence, and during the British intervention in Greece in 1944–45. After the war, he began law studies at Oriel College and he was also president of the Oxford Union, the debate chamber of the university until 1946. After graduation, he was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1946.
After being called to the Bar, he dealt mainly with criminal law and was introduced in 1951 by his lawyer A. P. Marshall in the case Willcock v Muckle, which led to the end of the use of identity cards from the war.
In the following years, he became one of the leading specialist lawyers for Individual rights. As prosecutor, he worked in the case against Anthony Reuter, a leader of the youth protest movement Teddy Boy, who was sentenced in 1956 for malicious injury to five years imprisonment, and against a man in 1961 to 50 pound sterling after kicking a greyhound at a greyhound race at Wembley.
Like many other barristers, Wigoder also engaged in politics and ran in the 1945 United Kingdom general election, and in a by-election on 15 November 1945 for the Liberal Party in the Bournemouth constituency. He was unsuccessful in both elections for a parliamentary mandate in the House of Commons.
Wigoder remained prominent in Liberal politics, standing in Westbury in 1959 and 1964, without success.
In 1963, he succeeded Desmond Banks as Executive Chairman of the Liberal Party and held the position until his replacement by Gruffyd Evans. Subsequently, he was Chairman of the Committee for the Organisation of the Party Lectures of the Liberal Party between 1965 and 1966.
On 20 April 1966 Wigoder was appointed for his legal services to the Crown lawyer (Queen's Counsel), and then dealt with many significant cases before the Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court.
Basil Wigoder
Basil Thomas Wigoder, Baron Wigoder QC (12 February 1921 – 12 August 2004) was a politician and barrister in the United Kingdom.
Wigoder, whose father was a dentist, and mother a judge, studied history at Oriel College, Oxford, after attending Manchester Grammar School. During World War II, he served between 1942 and 1945 in the Royal Artillery. On 14 August 1942 he was promoted to second Lieutenant. He served with the 30th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, and saw action in the Battle of Monte Cassino, the liberation of Rome, the Battle of Florence, and during the British intervention in Greece in 1944–45. After the war, he began law studies at Oriel College and he was also president of the Oxford Union, the debate chamber of the university until 1946. After graduation, he was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1946.
After being called to the Bar, he dealt mainly with criminal law and was introduced in 1951 by his lawyer A. P. Marshall in the case Willcock v Muckle, which led to the end of the use of identity cards from the war.
In the following years, he became one of the leading specialist lawyers for Individual rights. As prosecutor, he worked in the case against Anthony Reuter, a leader of the youth protest movement Teddy Boy, who was sentenced in 1956 for malicious injury to five years imprisonment, and against a man in 1961 to 50 pound sterling after kicking a greyhound at a greyhound race at Wembley.
Like many other barristers, Wigoder also engaged in politics and ran in the 1945 United Kingdom general election, and in a by-election on 15 November 1945 for the Liberal Party in the Bournemouth constituency. He was unsuccessful in both elections for a parliamentary mandate in the House of Commons.
Wigoder remained prominent in Liberal politics, standing in Westbury in 1959 and 1964, without success.
In 1963, he succeeded Desmond Banks as Executive Chairman of the Liberal Party and held the position until his replacement by Gruffyd Evans. Subsequently, he was Chairman of the Committee for the Organisation of the Party Lectures of the Liberal Party between 1965 and 1966.
On 20 April 1966 Wigoder was appointed for his legal services to the Crown lawyer (Queen's Counsel), and then dealt with many significant cases before the Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court.