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William

Edgar Rayner Goddard, Baron Goddard, GCB, PC (10

April 1877 – 29 May 1971) was Lord Chief

Justice of England from 1946 to 1958, known for his strict

sentencing and conservative views despite being the first Lord Chief Justice to

be appointed by a Labour government, as well as the first to possess a law

degree. Goddard's no-nonsense reputation was reflected in a number of nicknames that he acquired, these included: 'The - from Winston Churchill—'Lord God-damn'.. He was considered one of the last Hanging Judges. William Edgar Rayner Goddard was born on 10 April

1877 at Bassett Road, Notting Hill, London, the

second of three sons and the third of five children of the solicitor Charles

Goddard (22 February 1843 – 27 May 1922) and his wife Janet née Jobson, who was

from Sheffield (1851 – 8 June 1934). He went by his third name Rayner

throughout his life.

Goddard attended Marlborough College, where

he decided on a career in law. In later life he vigorously denied the frequent

claims of Lord Jowitt that

he had amused his school contemporaries by reciting, word for word, the form of

the death sentence upon those whom he disliked. He later attended Trinity College, Oxford and

graduated with an upper second-class degree in jurisprudence in 1898, and gained a Blue in athletics. He

was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1899.

On 31 May 1906 Goddard married Marie Schuster, the daughter of the banker

Sir Felix Otto Schuster, with

whom he was to have three daughters. She died on 16 May 1928 during an

operation at the age of 44. Goddard never remarried. Goddard built a strong

reputation in commercial cases on the Western Circuit and

was appointed Judgeship) in 1917. Goddard was appointed a King's Counsel in 1923, transferred to be Recorder

of Bath in 1925, and

eventually Recorder of Plymouth in 1928. He was elected

a Bencher of his inns in 1929 and undertook work for the

Barristers' Benevolent Association. In the general election of 1929,

Goddard agreed, against his better judgement, to contest as an sitting Conservative MP, Sir William

Davison, had been a defendant in a divorce case, and a local

committee thought the newly enfranchised young women voters would refuse to

support him. In the end, Goddard, running under the slogan "Purity

Goddard", came last in the poll, winning only 15 per cent of the vote, and

the sitting member was returned. On 5 April 1932 Goddard was appointed a Justice of

the High Court and assigned to the King's Bench Division, receiving the customary knighthood

later that year. In 1938, the Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous

Provisions) Act authorized the appointment of three additional Lords

Justices of Appeal: Goddard was one of the three new Lords Justices

appointed under the Act, after only six years in the High Court. Goddard was

known for turning out well-argued and legally convincing judgments. He would

deliver stern diatribes to criminals, but his sentences were usually moderate,

even when he was personally offended by the crime. After another six-year

stint, he was appointed as a Lord of

Appeal in Ordinary upon the death of Lord Atkin in 1944 and received as a Law lord a life peerage. He chose the title Baron Goddard of Aldbourne in the County of Wiltshire. Viscount

Caldecote, the Lord Chief

Justice of England and Wales, suffered a stroke in 1945 and suddenly

resigned, creating a vacancy at an inopportune moment. The tradition was for

the appointment to be a political one, with to take it. However, Hartley Shawcross was unwilling and considered too young.

The appointment of a stop-gap candidate was expected. As Goddard explained in

an August 1970 interview with David Yallop: "They had to give the job to somebody.

There wasn't anybody else available, so Attlee appointed

me." At the time Attlee and Goddard didn't know each other. The

appointment, in January 1946, came at a time when the crime rate, and public

concern over crime, were both increasing. Through his judgments, Goddard made

it clear that he felt that stronger sentences were the way to tackle both.

However, Goddard was also known to give young offenders probation rather than