George Leon Severyn Dobry (1 November 1918 – 14 March 2018) was a Polish-British barrister and judge. Dobry was born and raised in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

. He was educated in

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and at

Corpus Christi College, Oxford Corpus Christi College (formally, Corpus Christi College in the University of Oxford; informally abbreviated as Corpus or CCC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1517, it is the 12t ...

. He

took silk In the United Kingdom and in some Commonwealth countries, a King's Counsel (post-nominal initials KC) during the reign of a king, or Queen's Counsel (post-nominal initials QC) during the reign of a queen, is a lawyer (usually a barrister or a ...

in 1969 and was appointed a CBE in 1977. He married Margaret Headley Smith (1925-1978) in 1948 and had two daughters, Anthea and Josephine.

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1918 births 2018 deaths British barristers 20th-century English judges Polish emigrants to the United Kingdom Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford Lawyers from Warsaw Commanders of the Order of the British Empire {{Poland-bio-stub