Lord Shawcross was one of a rare breed - a jack of all trades and master of them too.
In a highly-distinguished career, he served as chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, an MP, Attorney General, director of numerous City institutions and chairman of the Press Council.
He successfully prosecuted acid bath murderer John Haigh at Lewes and later chaired the Medical Research Council.
For 20 years he was also an active Chancellor of the University of Sussex.
He combined a great academic mind with a ground-breaking approach to ideas, such as supporting the revolutionary architecture at the campus.
Lord Shawcross contributed hugely, not just to the life of the university but to the fabric of the whole of the UK. He will be sadly missed.
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