Hewart of Bury, John Gordon Hewart, 1st Baron Hewart of Bury (1870-1943)

English lawyer and politician. After working on the Manchester Guardian, he was called to the Bar in 1902 and became a KC (King's Counsel) in 1912. In 1913 Hewart was elected Liberal member of Parliament for Leicester. He was solicitor-general (1916-19) and then attorney-general (1921-22). Hewart was a member of the Irish Conference and one of the British signatories of the Irish peace treaty. In 1922 he became Lord Chief Justice.

Hewart was born in Bury, Lancashire, and was educated at Bury and Manchester Grammar Schools and at University College, Oxford. In 1929 he published The New Despotism, in which he attacked the delegation of legislative powers by Parliament to ministers.