Sir Audley McKisack QC (2 April 1903 – 16 August 1966) was an Irish

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and

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who ended a distinguished legal career as President of the High Court of the Federation of South Arabia and

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in the

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of the Bahamas and Bermuda.

Biography

McKisack was born in Craigavad,

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, Ireland, the only son of Audley John and Elizabeth McKisack. His elder sister was the historian

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(1900–1981). He was educated at

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and at University College, Oxford. He entered the Colonial Service in 1924 and was an Administrative Office in

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between 1924 and 1936. He was called to the

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in 1935 and became a member of the Inner Temple. He was Crown Counsel in Uganda between 1938 and 1944 and was appointed

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in 1944. He was appointed as Secretary to the Ministry of Justice of the Gold Coast in 1950 and was

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of Nigeria between 1951 and 1956. He was Chief Justice of Uganda between 1956 and 1962, President of the High Court of the Federation of South Arabia between 1964 and 1966, and

in the

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, aged 63.

References

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