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Name: GRIFFIN, Charles James, KB, KC (Ireland & Gibraltar), Sir
Birth Date: 25 Dec 1875 Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo
Death Date: 3 Jan 1962 Aldeburgh, Suffolk
First Date: 1921
Profession: Chief Justice of Uganda
Area: Kampala
Married: In Donnybrook, Dublin, 17 Sep 1901 Aileen Mary Fanning b. 7 Apr 1879 Kilkenny, d. 16 May 1954 St Peter Port, Guernsey
Children: John Bowes (18 Apr 1903 Blantyre, Nyasaland-1992), Kathleen Mary (23 June 1906 Rathmines-1996), Alice Mary (Boase) (1910)
Book Reference: Boase, Debrett, Red 25, EA & Rhodesia, Red 22, UJ
School: Catholic Univ. School, Belvedere College and Univ. College, Dublin (scholar, exhibitioner)
General Information:
Knighted in 1923.
Boase - youngest of a family of 5, his father died when he was an infant ..... 18 stone .... studied Law, a family tradition and was called to the Bar - married and became a magistrate in British Central Africa in 1901. Spent 13 years in Nyasaland. 1914 - offered post of Attorney General in Gibraltar. 1919 - Chief Justice of the Leeward Islands. 1921 Chief Justice of Uganda.
Debrett - Chancellor's Gold Medallist Roy. Univ. of Ireland; Bar, King's Inns, Dublin 1898, a KC, Gibraltar 1914, and KC, Ireland 1920; appointed Crown Prosecutor, Nyasaland 1901, Attorney-Gen thereof 1905, Judge of High Court 1906, Attorney-Gen. Gibraltar 1914, and Chief Justice of Leeward islands 1919, and of Uganda 1920 (also sits as Judge of Appeal Court of EA) retired 1932.
Uganda Journal - Vol. 20, No. 1 - Uganda Twenty-Five Years Ago by C. Handley Bird CBE - Sir Charles Griffin, the Chief Justice, was an outstanding character, exercising an influence for good far beyond the confines of the courts.
Red 25 - Vice-President, REAAA (Uganda)