Private Life and Honours
Shawcross's father was the politician, lawyer, Chief British Prosecutor at Nuremberg and life peer Hartley Shawcross, his mother Joan Winifred Mather, who died in a riding accident on the Sussex Downs in 1974. Shawcross married the writer and art critic Marina Warner in 1970. Their son, Conrad, is an artist of rising prominence. He married twice more; he and his third wife, Olga Polizzi, are based in London. His daughter Eleanor, daughter of his second wife, Michal Levin, is a member of the Council of Economic Advisers to George Osborne, having been appointed in 2008 prior to Osborne assuming office. She had previously worked on Boris Johnson's mayoral campaign, where she was responsible for composing large parts of his manifesto. Eleanor is also married to Simon Wolfson, Baron Wolfson, the chief executive of the clothing retailer Next and a Conservative life peer. He is the son of former Next chairman David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale, also a Conservative life peer.
Shawcross has lifelong ties to Cornwall where he is a keen campaigner in the preservation and protection of local Conservation Areas. There his one man campaign succeeded in obtaining Grade II listing for St Mawes' historic, and endangered, sea wall.
He was appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 2011 New Year Honours.
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