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Name: SPRY, John Farley

Birth Date: 11 Mar 1910 Cambridge

Death Date: 17 May 1999 Lymington, Hants.

First Date: 1936

Profession: Solicitor. Registrar-Gen, Tanganyika. President of Court of Appeal, East Africa 1974

Married: 1. Barbara Sheldon Thomson b. 21 Aug 1912 Salford, d. 26 Sep 2001 Eng. (div. 1940); 2. Stella Marie 'Sonya' Fichat b. 28.11.1906 Nairobi, d. 1995 (dau. of Sydney Carlisle Fichat)

Children: 1. Jennifer Theska Farley; Christopher John Farley (1938)

Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Colonial, Uganda Staff, Foster

School: Perse School and Peterhouse Cambridge

General Information:

Colonial - Puisne Judge 1961-64
Uganda Staff 1938 - Assistant Registrar of Titles and Conveyancer, Entebbe, appointed 1936
Colonial - Solicitor; Asst. Registr. Titles & Conveyancer Uganda 1936; Ch. Inspr. Land Registrn. Palestine 1944; Registrar-Gen. Tanganyika 1949; Kenya 1950
Pre-war volunteer to the Kenya Regiment (KR 602).
Chief Justice, Gibraltar 1976
Web Assistant registrar of titles and conveyancer, Government of Uganda, 1936-1944; assistant director land registration, Government of Palestine, 1944-1948; registrar-general, Government of Tanganyika, 1948-1950, 52-56; from legal draftsman to principal secretary, public service commission, Government of Tanganyika, 1956-1961; puisne judge, Government of Tanganyika, 1971-1974; registrar general, Government of Kenya, 1950-1952; from justice of appeal to vice president, Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa, 1964-1975; vice president, Pensions Appeal Tribunals, England, 1975-1976; chief justice, Supreme Court, Gibraltar, 1976-1980; justice of appeal, Court Appeals, Gibraltar, 1980-1983; president, Court Appeals, Gibraltar, 1983-1991; non-resident chief justice, Supreme Court, British Indian Ocean Territory, 1981-1987; non-resident chief justice, Supreme Court, St. Helena, 1983-1992; justice of appeal, Court Appeals, Falkland Islands, 1991-1995; president, Court Appeals, British Antarctic Territory, since 1991. Chairman Commision on the Law of Marriage and Divorce, Kenya, 1967-1968. Commissioner to inquire into incident in Cooperage Lane, Gibraltar, 1986.
Papers are in St Antony's College, Oxford

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