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John Bowes Griffin

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Soon after being called to the bar, in 1927, Griffin was appointed an administrative officer in Uganda. In 1929, he was appointed assistant district officer and registrar of the High Court. In the early 1930s, he was appointed
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In 1952, Griffin returned to Uganda as chief justice and served in that position until his early retirement due to ill health in December 1956. He was knighted in 1955.
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This and other biographical information, unless otherwise noted, from Griffin's Who's Who 1992 entry.
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He was appointed to a number of other positions in Africa until his final retirement in 1965.
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had become the first female member of in 1954), and from 1962 to 1963 as the speaker of the
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for various periods. He was appointed attorney general in the
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When The Sun Never Set: A Family's Life in the British Empire
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Griffin was born on 19 April 1903. He was the only son of
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and in that position acted as solicitor general and
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QC
chief justice
Supreme Court of Uganda
speaker
Charles James Griffin
chief justice of the Leeward Islands
Clongowes
County Kildare
Trinity College Dublin
Master of Arts
Doctor of Laws
Cambridge
Inner Temple
Crown Counsel
attorney general
Bahamas
King's Counsel
KC
Palestine
World War II
attorney general of Hong Kong
Northern Rhodesia
Zambia
Uganda Legislative Council
Alice
Ugandan National Assembly
Venerable Order of St John
Sliema
Malta

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