William Wells
Politician
1908 – 1990
Who was William Wells?
William Thomas Wells QC was an English barrister and Labour Party politician.
Wells was from an upper-class background and went to the Public School Lancing College near Brighton, and to Balliol College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1932.
During World War II, Wells served in the army on the General Staff to the War Office, being awarded the rank of Major. He was elected Member of Parliament for Walsall in the 1945 general election.
Although never taking Ministerial office, Wells's experience of the law was used on departmental committees. He was a member of the Lord Chancellor's Committee on the Practice and Procedure of the Supreme Court which sat from 1947 to 1953, of the Magistrates' Courts Rules Committee from 1954, and of the Wolfenden Committee on Prostitution and Homosexual Offences from 1954 to 1957.
Wells remained an active Barrister throughout his Parliamentary career and was made a Queen's Counsel in 1955. He was Deputy Chairman of Hertfordshire Quarter Sessions from 1961 to 1971, and in 1963 he became a Bencher of the Middle Temple.
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- Born
- Aug 10, 1908
- Nationality
- England
- Education
- Balliol College
- Died
- Jan 3, 1990
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on July 23, 2013
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