William Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett

The Right Honourable (William) Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett, PC (6 September 1883 – 10 February 1962) was a noted British barrister and judge who served as the alternate British Judge during the Nuremberg trials after World War II.

Attributed

 * I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make sure they are still going.
 * Robert Andrews, Famous Lines: a Columbia dictionary of familiar quotations (1997), which cites a quotation in the London Observer, 30 October 1960