Norman De Mattos Bentwich OBE MC (28 February 1883 – 8 April 1971) was a British barrister and legal academic who served as Legal Secretary and the first Attorney-General of Mandatory Palestine from 1918 to 1929. He was also President of the Jewish Historical Society. He was the eldest son of Herbert Bentwich.

[edit] Education

• St. Paul's School
• Trinity College, Cambridge: First class in both parts of classical tripos, 1903-5; Members' Essay Prize, Whewell Scholarship for International Law and Yorke Prize.

[edit] Career

• Called to the bar (Lincolns Inn), 1908
• Ministry of Justice, Cairo, 1912-1915
• Major, Camel Transport, 1916-1918
• Legal secretary to military administration, Palestine, 1918-22
• First attorney-general in mandatory government of Palestine, 1922-9
• Recalled to Colonial Office, 1929-31
• Professor of International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1932 and 1945-1951
• Director of League of Nations High Commission for Refugees from Germany, 1933-1935
• British Ministry of Information and Air Ministry, 1939-45

[edit] Other positions

• Co-editor of the Jewish Review, 1910-1913 and 1932-1934
• Lecturer at Hague Academy of International Law, 1929, 1934 and 1955
• Vice-President, Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad
• Chairman, National Peace Council, 1944-1946
• Chairman, United Restitution Office, 1948-1971
• Foreign Office Committee on Restitution in British Zone of Germany, 1951
• President, Jewish Historical Society, 1960-1962
• Chairman, Friends of Hebrew University
• President of London North-Western Reform Synagogue, 1958-71

[edit] Books

• Hellenism

[edit] References

• Dictionary of National Biography
• Who was Who

[edit] External links

• Works by Norman Bentwich at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Norman Bentwich in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Norman Bentwich, The Law of Private Property in War, with a Chapter on Conquest (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1907)] -- his Yorke prize essay from 1906.

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