WIGODER, BASIL THOMAS, BARON
- WIGODER, BASIL THOMAS, BARON
- WIGODER, BASIL THOMAS, BARON (1921–2004), British lawyer.
Wigoder was born in Manchester, son of Philip I. Wigoder,
a prominent local Zionist, and educated at Manchester Grammar School and
Oxford. At Oxford he was president of the Union. After his military
service in World War II, he joined the Liberal Party and
unsuccessfully contested a number of elections. From 1963 to 1965 he was
chairman of the Liberal Party executive and in 1965–66 of the Liberal
Party Organizing Committee. He ceased much of his political activity in
the mid-1960s and concentrated on his legal work, acquiring recognition
through his appearances in leading criminal cases. In 1966 he was made a
Queen's Counsel and in 1971 a Recorder of the Crown Court. In 1974 he
was created a life peer, and served as Liberal Whip in the House of
Lords.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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