Sir George Campbell Deane was the Chief Justice of the
Gold Coast Colony
The Gold Coast was a British Crown colony on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa from 1821 until its independence in 1957 as Ghana. The term Gold Coast is also often used to describe all of the four separate jurisdictions that were under the ad ...
from 1929 until 1935. He took the office from Sir
Philip Crampton Smyly
Sir Philip Crampton Smyly (28 March 1866–1953) was a British judge and colonial administrator.
Career
Smyly was the son of the surgeon Sir Philip Crampton Smyly, Surgeon-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria and to successive Lords-Lieutenant of Irela ...
in 1929 and was succeeded by Sir
Philip Bertie Petrides
Sir Philipos Bertie Petrides (27 June 1881 – 19 April 1956), known as Philip Petrides, was a British colonial judge and administrator.
Petrides was born in Sydenham, London, the third son of Greek merchant Demetrius Nicetas Petrides (born in ...
in 1936.
References
20th-century British judges
Gold Coast (British colony) judges
Chief justices
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
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