About Tom Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill
Thomas Henry Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill was a British judge who was successively Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice and Senior Law Lord. On his death in 2010, he was described as the greatest judge of his generation. Baroness Hale of Richmond observed that his pioneering role in the formation of the United Kingdom Supreme Court may be his most important and long-lasting legacy. The Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers regarded Bingham as "one of the two great legal figures of my lifetime in the law". Lord Hope of Craighead described Bingham as "the greatest jurist of our time". His book, The Rule of Law, was published in 2010 and he was posthumously awarded the 2011 Orwell Prize for literature. He won an open scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, first undertaking National Service from 1952 to 1954, as a second lieutenant in the Royal Ulster Rifles serving in Hong Kong. He was awarded one of the first William Coolidge Pathfinder Awards and spent the summer of 1955 in the US. He won the Gibbs Prize for Modern History in 1957 and was awarded first-class honours in finals.
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