Victor Mishcon, Baron Mishcon, QC, DL (14 August 1915 – 27 January 2006) was a leading British solicitor and a Labour politician. His firm acted for Diana, Princess of Wales in her divorce. The Mishcon Lectures were established at University College, London in 1990 in honour of Lord Mishcon to mark his 75th birthday and in recognition of his achievements and service in the fields of law, education, religion, government and politics, both central and local. Early life Mishcon was born in Brixton, south London, the son of Arnold Mishcon, a rabbi who emigrated from Russian Poland, and his wife Queenie. He was educated at the City of London School. He studied law and founded the firm of solicitors Victor Mishcon & Co in Brixton in 1937. Labour Party An active member of the Labour Party, Mishcon served as a Councillor on Lambeth Borough Council from 1945–48, and represented Brixton on London County Council from 1946–64. He was chairman of London County Council in 1954—then aged 39, the youngest chair that century. He was elected to the successor Greater London Council for Lambeth 1964–67. He stood without success as a Labour party candidate in four parliamentary elections, in Leeds North-West in 1950; in Bath in 1951; and in Gravesend in 1955 and 1959. He was made a life peer on 10 May 1978 as Baron Mishcon, of Lambeth in Greater London on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, James Callaghan. Lord Mishcon was Labour home affairs spokesman in the House of Lords from 1983 to 1990 and served as shadow Lord Chancellor from 1990 to 1992. Legal career Victor Mishcon was one of 15 men and women who sat on the 1954–1957 British Government appointed Wolfenden Committee which considered the law and practice of homosexual offences and treatment of persons convicted of such offences in British courts, and to review prostitution offences. His firm acted for Ruth Ellis in her divorce but not in her later murder trial, and for Jeffrey Archer in his libel suit against the Daily Star, which had claimed that Archer had had sex with a prostitute. Archer won damages of £500,000, but was later convicted of perjury and repaid over £1,500,000. In 1988, Victor Mishcon & Co merged with part of Bartletts de Reya, forming the law firm Mishcon de Reya. Mishcon played a prominent role in The Princess of Wales's divorce from The Prince