Brian André Doyle was a

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who was

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and Chief Justice of Zambia. He served in

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as Solicitor General from 1948 to 1951, and as

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from 1949 to 1956 (his tenure in these two offices evidently overlapped). Later he was Chief Justice of Zambia from 1969 to 1975. He went on to serve two terms as a Judge of the

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(1973 to 1979, and 1988 to 1991). He died in

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at the home of his son. He also had a daughter there.

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