Earl of Kilmuir was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1962 for the prominent lawyer and Conservative politician David Maxwell Fyfe along with the subsidiary title Baron Fyfe of Dornoch, of Dornoch in the County of Sutherland. He had already been created Viscount Kilmuir, of Creich in the County of Sutherland, in 1954. The earldom and barony were created seven days after Maxwell Fyfe was axed from the Cabinet in July 1962 during the Night of the Long Knives. The titles became extinct on Lord Kilmuir's death in 1967 as he had no sons, only daughters. The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801. ... The epithet Night of the Long Knives is given to July 13, 1962, when the British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan sacked the following members of his Cabinet: Lord Kilmuir — Lord Chancellor Selwyn Lloyd — Chancellor of the Exchequer David Eccles — Minister of Education Harold Arthur Watkinson — Minister of Defence John Scott... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir (1900-1967) was an important British politician and jurist.
Born in Aberdeen, he became the youngest King's Counsel in 250 years in 1934 and was elected to the House of Commons in the Conservative interest in 1935.
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