Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf
Harry Kenneth Woolf, Baron Woolf CH PC FBA FMedSci , was Master of the Rolls from 1996 until 2000 and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2000 until 2005. The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 made him the first Lord Chief Justice to be President of the Courts of England and Wales. He has been a nonpermanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong since 2003.
Woolf was born in NewcastleuponTyne, England, onMay 1933, to Alexander Susman Woolf and his wife Leah . His grandfather Harry was a naturalised Briton of Polish or Russian Jewish origins. His father had been a fine art dealer, but was persuaded to run his own building business instead by his wife. They had four children, but their first child died, and his mother was protective of the three surviving children. Woolf lived in NewcastleuponTyne until he was about five years old, when his family moved to Glasgow, Scotland and he then went to Fettes College, an Edinburgh public school, where he mostly enjoyed his time and had supportive friends.
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