Sir Henry Herman Slesser, KC (12 July 1883 - 3 December 1979) was a barrister and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom, and later a senior judge. He was born in London as Henry Herman Schloesser, the son of a leather merchant and a concert pianist; he changed his name in 1914, preferring the Anglicised form when Britain went to war with Germany. After an apprenticeship in railway engineering, his health collapsed, … Wikipedia
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