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Name: SUMMERFIELD, John Crampton CBE, Sir

Nee: son of Arthur Fred Summerfield

Birth Date: 20 Sep 1920 Nairobi

Death Date: 1997 Ashford, Kent

First Date: 1920

Profession: E.A. High Commission, lawyer

Married: In Nairobi 11 Aug 1945 Patricia Sandra Musgrave b. 8 Nov 1919 Gatooma, S. Rhodesia, d. 26 Oct 1915 Kings Lynn

Children: John A. (20.9.1920); Patricia B. (9.11.1920; Michael A.C. (4.2.1948); Rosemary A. (21.6.1955)

Book Reference: Debrett, Kingsley-Heath

School: Lucton School, Hereford

General Information:

Debrett - Bar, Gray's Inn 1949; QC Bermuda 1963; Dep. Legal Sec., E. African Common Services Organisation, Kenya 1958-62, and Attorney General Bermuda 1962-72, since when Chief Justice, Bermuda; 1939-45 war as Capt. R. Signals in E. Africa, Abyssinia and Madagascar.
Kingsley-Heath - Called to the Bar of Gray's Inn, UK, and appointed Crown Counsel in the Tanganyika Legal Dept. 1949. Prosecuted Julius Nyerere, afterwards President of Tanzania, for the slander of a district officer. Prosecuted the Mangati ritual murderers who dressed up as lions before killing their victims in Singida District, Tanganyika. In a long and distinguished colonial legal career, he was chief justice of Bermuda and the Cayman Islands and president of the court of appeals in Belize. He was most helpful to me [Kingsley-Heath] as a district officer, his guidance being involved in the recording of cases of preliminary enquiry to murder. (Deceased)
Telegraph - 12/4/1997 - Obituary on file

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