Simon Goldblatt

Simon Goldblatt (24 December 1928 – 2 November 2021) was a British Barrister and Liberal Party politician.

Background
Simon Goldblatt was born in 1928. He was educated at Eton College, going up in 1941 as one of the few Jewish boys in attendance and ending his time there as captain of the school. He then studied the law tripos at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating with a first-class degree in the subject in 1950.

Professional career
Goldblatt was called to the Bar in 1953. He joined chambers soon thereafter. He took silk in 1972 (having effectively been positively invited to do so by the appellate committee of the House of Lords, one of whose members had commented in one case that they "took it most ill that submissions of that calibre come otherwise than from the front bench"), and was made a Bencher in 1982.

He was head of chambers at Essex Chambers from 1983 until 1986. He continued to practise there alongside occasional stints as a Deputy High Court Judge, where he had a tendency to find alternative paths to correct jurisprudence to those presented to him by counsel. He was still attending chambers daily, up to some weeks before his death. His personal interests included foreign travel, philately, and porcelain.

Political career
Goldblatt was President of the West Midlands Young Liberals Federation, and was a Member of the Liberal Party Council. He was the Liberal candidate for the Rugby division of Warwickshire at the 1959 and 1964 General Elections, and for the Twickenham division of Middlesex at the 1966 General Election. He did not stand for parliament again.