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Name: CARTER, William Morris KB, CBE, Sir

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Birth Date: 9 Dec 1873 Petworth, Sussex

Death Date: 22 Sept 1960 Horsham, Sussex

First Date: 1902

Last Date: 1924

Profession: Registrar of HM High Court of EA 1902, Magistrate at Mombasa in Oct. 1902, Judge of HM High Court of Uganda in 1903 and Chief Justice from 1912/20. At the end of WW1 acted as Governor of Uganda and then was transferred to Tanganyika as Chief Justice

Area: Mombasa, Uganda, Tanganyika

Married: In London 18 Oct 1928 Lavinia Florence Brown b. 1897 Wellingborough, d. 2 Dec 1943 Oxford

Children: Jennifer Jill Morris (1933)

Book Reference: Who's Who, Gillett, EAHB 1905, EAS, North, Colonial, EA Diary 1903, Drumkey, Red 22, EAHB 1906, UJ, North, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907, Red 19

War Service: Served in EA Campaign

School: King's School, Canterbury and Brasenose College, Oxford, BA, BCL; Cert. of Honour, Bar Exam 1899

General Information:

From 1921-24 he was President of the Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa. He was a good golfer, tennis and cricket player and was the first President of the Ugnada Kobs. After some years in retirement he died in England.  
Debrett - appointed Registrar and Principal Registrar of Documents, EA Protectorate 1902, Magistrate 1902, a Judge of High Court of Uganda and a Judge of Court of Appeal for EA 1903, and Ch. Justice of Uganda 1912, and of Tanganyika Territory 1920,  (also Pres. of Court of Appeal for EA); retired 1924; was Chm. Supplies Board Uganda 1914-17 and 1918-20, in charge of Uganda Military Supplies 1914-15 and Asst. Director of Transport and Contracts Uganda 1916-17 (despatches); organized Shortages Section Min of Food (London) 1917-18; acted as Gov. of Uganda Dec. 1919 to July 1920; is a Com. of Order of Crown of Belgium; cr. CBE (Civil) 1918, Knt. 1919   
EAHB 1905 - Certificate of honour, Bar examination, 1899; Special prize of Council of Legal Education in Constitutional Law; Registrar and Principal Registrar of Documents, EAP, Jan. 1902; Acting Town Magistrate, Mombasa, April 1902; Magistrate, Oct. 1st 1902; Judge of the High Court, Uganda, Jan 15th 1904.
The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa Uganda Journal - Vol 22, p. 186 - Group photograph of Uganda officials November 1907.
EA Diary 1903 - Registrar, EA Protectorate and Principal Registrar of Documents, Jan 1902; Acting Town Magistrate, April 1902; Magistrate Aug 23 1902
Red Book 1919 - W M Carter, CBE - Chief Justice, UP - Entebbe
Was Chairman of the Kenya Land Commission 1932-3
His wife was admitted to Bethlem Mental Hospital London (was there during 1939 England and Wales Register) and she died in the Warneford Mental Hospital, Oxford 2 Dec 1943

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