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Name: RUDD, Geoffrey Burkitt Whitcomb

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Birth Date: 29 May 1908 Cork, Ireland

Death Date: 26 Dec 1975 Clonoulty, Tipperary

Nationality: Irish

First Date: 1936

Profession: Resident Magistrate, Kenya in 1939, appointed 1936. Act. Judge Kenya 1943, Act. Chief Justice & Legal Adviser to Govt. of Aden 1944-45, Judge of Supreme Court, Aden 1944-51, Puisne Judge Kenya in 1953

Area: Nairobi

Married: In Caterham, Surrey 9 May 1936 Gwendoline Mary de Clifton Parminter b. 12 Oct 1912 Lymm, Cheshire, d. 22 Nov 1999 Dumfries

Children: Peter William Alexander (1.9.1937 Nairobi); Richard Alistair Parmiter (5 Dec 1939-2020); Ruary Nail (22.4.1941); Oriel Mary (31.12.1943); Brian Burkitt (7.12.1950)

Book Reference: Staff 39, Who's Who, Staff 53, Colonial, Who's Who, Irish

School: Mourne School and St. Columba's College and Trinity College Dublin - BA, LLB, (Trinity College, Dub.), Barrister-at-Law

General Information:

Who's Who 63 - Barrister at Law King's Inn 1932; RM Kenya 1936-44
Irish - President of the EA Irish Society in 1956

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