Sir Edgar Ignatius Godfrey Unsworth,

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, QC (18 April 1906 – 15 March 2006) was a British lawyer and judge. He served as both Attorney-General for

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and Chief Justice of Gibraltar during his long legal career.

Biography

He attended

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and Manchester University (LLB Hons) and studied law at Gray's Inn, where he was

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in 1930. He was in private practice from 1930 to 1937 before accepting the post as a Crown Counsel in Northern Nigeria. He afterwards served as Attorney-General of Northern Rhodesia (1951–56) and of the Federation of Nigeria (1956–60) before serving two years as Federal Justice of the Federal Supreme Court. He then took the post of Chief Justice of Nyasaland (1962–64) and was appointed Chief Justice of Gibraltar the following year. He was knighted in 1963. At the time of his death, he was the second to last person originally appointed as “

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”, before the accession of Elizabeth II. He died in 2006, a month before his centenary. He never married.

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* Burke's Peerage & Gentry LLC. (Burke's Peerage & Baronetage 107th Edition, Burke's Landed Gentry 19th Edition) * Burke's Peerage Partnership. (Burke's Landed Gentry 18th Edition) 1906 births 2006 deaths People educated at Stonyhurst College Alumni of the University of Manchester Members of Gray's Inn 20th-century King's Counsel English barristers Chief justices of Nyasaland Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Chief justices of Gibraltar Attorneys-general of Northern Rhodesia Members of the Legislative Council of Northern Rhodesia 20th-century Gibraltarian judges {{UK-law-bio-stub