About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: 20th-century Methodist clergy, Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett, George Beverly Shea, Sheila Dixon, Jim Clyburn, Billy Dee Williams, Gregory Meeks, Stanley Hallett, Gwen Ifill, Arsenio Hall, John C. Maxwell, James Lawson, Canaan Banana, Minerva G. Carcano, Daniel Wandabula, Robert Bradford, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, Donald Wildmon, Edgar S. Brightman, A. Harold Wood, Ebenezer Vickery, Donald Soper, Baron Soper, Robert E. Hayes, Jr., Alexander Robert Edgar, Scott J. Jones, Henry Howard, William Henry Willimon, Margaret Barker, George Bramwell Evens, Fred Pratt Green, Walter Cresswell O'Reilly, Richard Boyer, Geoffrey Wainwright, Richard J. Wills Jr, Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, Robert T. Hoshibata, James Egan Moulton, Finis Alonzo Crutchfield, Jr., Thomas Bickerton, William Henry Withrow, Bernhard Anderson, Robert Bird, Patrick Streiff, Joshua DuBois, William Fairfield Warren, Samuel Kobia, Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, John K. Yambasu, Ellsworth Kalas, James Mudge, Mary Virginia Taylor, Charles L. Allen, Hope Morgan Ward, Frank Isitt, Kathleen Richardson, Baroness Richardson of Calow, Jo Anne Lyon, Kiyoshi Tanimoto, Rosemarie Wenner. Excerpt: William Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett, QC PC (6 September 1883 - 10 February 1962) was a British barrister, judge, politician and preacher who served as the alternate British judge during the Nuremberg Trials. Educated at Barrow-in-Furness Grammar School. He was a Methodist preacher and a draper before attending Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1907 to study theology, history and law. Upon graduating in 1910 he worked as a secretary and was called to the Bar in 1913. Declared medically unfit for military service during World War I, Birkett used the time to make up for his late entry into the legal profession and was made a King's Counsel in 1924. He became a criminal defence lawyer an...