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Name: HORNE, William Kenneth, Sir
Birth Date: 19 Dec 1883 London
Death Date: 8 Feb 1959 Epwell Mill, Banbury, Oxfordshire
First Date: 1933
Last Date: 1955
Profession: Barrister 1913-1925, Supreme Court Judge 1933-37, and 1944-48, Speaker of Legislative Council 1948-55. Also served as a Judge in Tonga and Straits Settlement and Pacific
Area: Nairobi
Married: In Nairobi 4 Oct 1934 Marjorie Franklin b. 17 Feb 1895 (dau of William Hodgson Franklin)
Book Reference: EAWL, Who's Who, EA & Rhodesia
War Service: Served European War 1914-18, War service in E. Africa 1942-44
School: Privately and Manchester Grammar School
General Information:
Source: Who's Who 1959
Who's Who - Called to the Bar 1913; entered Public service as Chief Justice Tonga Islands 1925; Acted Chief Justice Fiji Islands 1929; Apptd. Judge of the Gambia 1930, Kenya 1933, Malaya 1937, Legal Adviser OETA Somalia 1942, retired Judge 1947. Speaker Kenya Legislative Council 1947-55
EA & Rhodesia - 12/2/59 - Sir William Horne, Speaker of the Kenya Legislative Council from 1948 to 1954, died in Banbury, Oxfordshire, on Sunday at the age of 76. Educated at Manchester Grammar School, he served with the French Red Cross on the Western Front in 1915-16, and was then commissioned in the Motor Transport section of the Army Service Corps, serving for three years on the Salonika front. Called to the Bar at Gray's Inn soon after demobilization, he joined the Colonial Legal Service in 1925 after a short period of private practice. He was a judge of the Supreme Court of Kenya from 1933 to 1937 and then served for 5 years in the Colonial Legal Service in Malaya. During the last war he went back to East Africa as legal adviser in Somalia. He was an acting judge in Kenya from 1944 until he retired to settle on his farm near Limuru in 1947. A few months later he was appointed Speaker of the Legislative Council. He was knighted in 1954.
Gazette 18 Aug 1959 probate
1939 England and Wales Refgister living in Paddington with wife