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Mark Saville, Baron Saville of Newdigate

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Mark Oliver Saville, Baron Saville of Newdigate, PC (born 1936) is a British Law Lord.

He was educated at Rye Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he won the Vinerian Scholarship. He became a barrister in 1962 and a Queen's Counsel in 1975. He was appointed a Judge of the High Court in 1985 and a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1994. In 1997 he became a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.

On 29 January 1998 he was appointed to chair the Bloody Sunday Inquiry into the events of 30 January 1972 in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.