Sir Peter Graham (7 January 1934 – 20 October 2019)Sir Peter Graham obituary, The Times, 26 October 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2019. was a British lawyer and parliamentary draftsman.
Early life and education Graham was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire,England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007 where his father, Alderman Douglas Graham was Mayor in 1966–67. He was educated at St Bees School in Cumberland. After service in the Fleet Air Arm (1952–55), he went up to St John's College, Cambridge to read law,"Graham, Sir Peter", Who's Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 27 January 2019. graduating with a BA in 1957 and a postgraduate LLB in 1958,Cambridge University List of Members Up to 31 December 1988 (1988), p. 490. the same year that he was called to the bar.
Career He joined the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel the following year, and was promoted to Second Parliamentary Counsel in 1987 and then First Parliamentary Counsel in 1991, serving until retirement in 1994. He was responsible for drafting over a hundred Acts of Parliament, including legislation relating to the United Kingdom's ratification of the Maastricht Treaty (1992), the privatisation of British Rail (1993), the National Lottery etc. Act 1993, and the Sunday Trading Act 1994.
Graham was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1982 Birthday Honours,The London Gazette, 11 June 1982 (supplement no. 49008), p. 3. and promoted to Knight Commander in the 1993 Birthday Honours.The London Gazette, 11 June 1993 (supplement no. 53332), p. 2. He took silk in 1990.
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