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Name: GEORGIADIS, Byron Nicholas

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Birth Date: 27 Apr 1927 Tabora

Death Date: 3 Jan 2010 Nairobi

Last Date: 2010

Profession: Kaplan & Stratton, lawyer

Area: Westwood Park, Karen

Married: In Kensington 1954 Mary Diana Kendall b. 1912

Book Reference: Hut, O&C, Who's Who 63, Telegraph

School: Prince of Wales School, Nairobi 1940-45; Brasenose College Oxford 1946-50

General Information:

Who's Who 63 - Barrister at Law Inner Temple 1951; Advocate Kenya 1953; President Kenya European Hockey Assoc.; Member of Board of Governors of Prince of Wales School.
Daily Telegraph - Obituary 10 Feb 2010 - Jan 3 aged 82. Leading member of Kenya's legal establishment whose family left Greece for Africa after the 1922 war with the Turks. After Oxford, decided to open his own chambers in Kenya where he pursued corruption cases and successfully defended a client charged with murder - the press began to refer to him as "the silver-maned Perry Mason of East Africa". Later advised John Ward in the inquiry into the death of his daughter, Julie Ward, in the Masai Mara Reserve in 1988, producing evidence that she had been murdered, and not killed by animals as the authorities had claimed. "I think I had the best lawyer in Kenya," Ward said.
Gazette 12 Dec 1950 he wants probate for Nicholas Hippocrates Georgiades of Kampala who d. Dar es Salaam 26 June 1950
Head boy at Prince of Wales School
Old Cambrian website This outstanding Old Cambrian died at his home in Kenya on 3rd January 2010. As the son of the owner of the Uganda Tobacco Company, in the first term of 1945 Byron was Head of Hawke House, Head of School, and Captain of Hockey, before leaving to pursue a career in law at Oxford. 
After qualifying as a Barrister, Byron returned to Kenya in the early 1950's and quickly established a reputation as a brilliant trial lawyer in several high profile cases. With an international reputation and able to command high fees, Byron never forgot his background and his roots, and several penniless Old Cambrians on serious charges had cause to feel grateful to him for defending them free of charge, invariably successfully, out of the goodness of his heart. A loyal member of the Old Cambrian Society and Impala Club, Byron turned out for the hockey sides for a number of seasons.

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