John Widgery, Baron Widgery

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British judge human life peer

John Widgery, Baron Widgery was a British judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales and is best known for leading the controversial Widgery Tribunal into the events of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland.

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Label Occurrences
John Widgery, Baron Widgery canonical 3

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf British judge ⓘ
human ⓘ
life peer ⓘ
areaOfWork English law ⓘ
criminal law ⓘ
judicial administration ⓘ
birthPlace Devon NERFINISHED ⓘ
England ⓘ
Exeter NERFINISHED ⓘ
conflict World War II ⓘ
surface form: Second World War
countryOfCitizenship England ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ
deathPlace Devon NERFINISHED ⓘ
England ⓘ
Exeter NERFINISHED ⓘ
educatedAt Exeter School NERFINISHED ⓘ
Queen's College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ
University of Oxford ⓘ
familyName Widgery NERFINISHED ⓘ
givenName John NERFINISHED ⓘ
honorificPrefix The Right Honourable ⓘ
honorificSuffix DL ⓘ
PC ⓘ
QC ⓘ
knownFor controversial findings on Bloody Sunday ⓘ
languageSpoken English ⓘ
legalSystem common law of England and Wales ⓘ
memberOf Inner Temple NERFINISHED ⓘ
Privy Council ⓘ
surface form: Privy Council of the United Kingdom
militaryBranch Royal Artillery NERFINISHED ⓘ
nobleTitle Baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom ⓘ
notableEvent Bloody Sunday inquiry NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFor inquiry into Bloody Sunday ⓘ
notableWork Widgery Tribunal NERFINISHED ⓘ
occupation barrister ⓘ
judge ⓘ
jurist ⓘ
parliamentaryGroup House of Lords NERFINISHED ⓘ
positionHeld Bencher of the Inner Temple ⓘ
High Court judge ⓘ
Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ
Lord Justice of Appeal NERFINISHED ⓘ
Recorder of Exeter NERFINISHED ⓘ
title Baron Widgery NERFINISHED ⓘ

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: John Widgery, Baron Widgery
Description of subject: John Widgery, Baron Widgery was a British judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales and is best known for leading the controversial Widgery Tribunal into the events of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Widgery Tribunal → chairperson → John Widgery, Baron Widgery ⓘ
Widgery Tribunal → namedAfter → John Widgery, Baron Widgery ⓘ
Widgery Tribunal → reportAuthor → John Widgery, Baron Widgery ⓘ