HEWART, GORDON HEWART, 1ST BARON (1870— ), British lord chief justice, was born on Jan. 7, 1870, at Bury, Lan cashire. A scholar of University college, Oxford, he was called to the bar in 1902 and practised on the northern circuit. After an unsuccessful contest in Northwest Manchester in 1912, in which year he took silk, he was elected as a Liberal for Leicester in 1913, and after the rearrangement of constituencies in 1918 represented the eastern division of that city from 1918 till his retirement from parliament. In Dec. 1916 he was appointed solicitor-general in Lloyd George's Coalition Government. He was made attorney-general in Jan. 1919, and was admitted to the cabinet in 1921. He gave material assistance in the conduct of reconstructive legislation, and took an active part in the final phase of the negotiations with the Sinn Feiners, being one of the signatories of the so-called Irish Treaty. He acted as president of the War Compensation Court from 1922. He had been knighted in 1916; on Jan. 16, 1918, he was sworn of the privy council, and on March 24, 1922, was appointed lord chief justice, being at the same time created Baron Hewart of Bury.