FAREWELL will be paid today on Merseyside to one of the region’s former top lawyers.
The funeral of William Waldron, Snr, QC, who was a member of Liverpool's Exchange Chambers until his retirement, is to be held at noon at St John the Evangelist Church, in Kirkdale.
Mr Waldron, 83, who only gave up his practice in his mid-70s, lived the last two decades in Boughton, Chester, but was born in Kirkdale and was baptised at the church where the service is to be held.
He won a scholarship to attend St Francis Xavier School, Liverpool, and, intending to be a priest, began studying at Up Holland Seminary, but was called up in 1945 to join the RAF.
After leaving, his met his future wife, Rosa, and joined a solicitors firm, which eventually became Hill Dickinsons.Š
He stood for the Labour Party in Garston in 1966, and was a Liverpool city councillor for the Dovecot ward. He was promised a safe Parliamentary seat by Harold Wilson, but was unfortunately diagnosed with heart disease and forced to abandon a political future.
He was then called to the Bar, something he had always wanted, but which had been beyond his parents’ financial grasp. Although a civil practitioner, after taking Silk in the early 80s, he turned his skills to crime and became a very busy and highly respected criminal QC.
An immensely popular man, a colleague once described him as "a man so modest, with so little to be modest about”.
A devoted family man, he leaves behind his second wife, Michelle, son William, who is also a Liverpool QC, daughters Catherine and Bernadette, and three grandsons. He died on December 18 in the Countess of Chester Hospital.
