Christopher Nyholm Shawcross

Christopher Nyholm Shawcross, QC (20 June 1905 – 18 August 1973) was a British lawyer and Labour politician.

He was the younger son of John Shawcross and Hilda Constance Asser. He was educated at Dulwich College and University College, Oxford, before going on to study law at Gray's Inn.

He was called to the bar in 1931 and practised at the Common Law Bar in London and in the Midland Circuit. he retired from the Bar in 1961, but returned to practice in the South Eastern Circuit in 1969.

Christopher Shawcross married twice. His 1931 marriage to Doreen Burrows was dissolved in 1949, and he married Maridel Chance in the same year and they had two children. He was the younger brother of Hartley Shawcross, also a distinguished lawyer and Labour politician.

He died at his home in Haywards Heath, Sussex, aged 68.