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Frank Soskice

The Right Honourable
The Lord Stow Hill
PC QC
Lord Privy Seal
In office
23 December 1965 – 6 April 1966
Prime Minister Harold Wilson
Preceded by Frank Pakenham
Succeeded by Frank Pakenham
Home Secretary
In office
18 October 1964 – 23 December 1965
Prime Minister Harold Wilson
Preceded by Henry Brooke
Succeeded by Roy Jenkins
Shadow Home Secretary
In office
15 February 1963 – 18 October 1964
Leader Harold Wilson
Preceded by George Brown
Succeeded by Edward Boyle
Attorney General for England and Wales
In office
24 April 1951 – 26 October 1951
Prime Minister Clement Attlee
Preceded by Sir Hartley Shawcross
Succeeded by Sir Lionel Heald
Solicitor General for England and Wales
In office
4 August 1945 – 24 April 1951
Prime Minister Clement Attlee
Preceded by Sir Walter Monckton
Succeeded by Sir Lynn Ungoed-Thomas
Member of Parliament for Newport
In office
6 July 1956 – 31 March 1966
Preceded by Peter Freeman
Succeeded by Roy Hughes
Member of Parliament for Sheffield Neepsend
In office
23 February 1950 – 26 May 1955
Preceded by Harry Morris
Succeeded by Constituency abolished
Member of Parliament for Birkenhead East
In office
5 July 1945 – 23 February 1950
Preceded by Henry Graham White
Succeeded by Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born (1902-07-23)23 July 1902
Died 1 January 1979(1979-01-01) (aged 76)
Nationality British
Political party Labour
Alma mater Balliol College, Oxford

Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill, PC, QC (23 July 1902 – 1 January 1979) was a British lawyer and Labour Party politician.

Soskice's father was the exiled Russian revolutionary journalist David Soskice; his mother was the granddaughter of artist Ford Madox Brown, niece of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and sister of Ford Madox Ford. Soskice was educated at the Froebel Demonstration School, St Paul's School, London, and Balliol College, Oxford. He studied law and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1926. He served in the British Army with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during World War II.

Following the war, he was elected to parliament as a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Birkenhead East in the 1945 general election, and became Solicitor General, receiving the customary knighthood, in the government of Clement Attlee, serving in that office throughout Attlee's government. He was also, briefly, UK delegate to the United Nations General Assembly. As Solicitor General, Soskice was viewed as an important advocate for the government in the House of Commons. His constituency was abolished in the 1950 election, when he unsuccessfully fought Bebington, but he was soon returned to the House of Commons at a by-election in the Sheffield Neepsend constituency, where the sitting MP Harry Morris stood down to make way for Soskice. In April 1951, he became Attorney General.


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