Sir John Lucie-Smith, (1825 – 9 July 1883) was

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. Cundall, Frank. (1915
''Historic Jamaica''.
London: Institute of Jamaica. pp. xviii-xix. He was born to lawyer John Lucie-Smith in Demerara, British Guiana and trained for the law himself at the Middle Temple in London, where he was

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in 1849. He returned to practise as a lawyer in British Guiana and in 1852 was appointed Solicitor-General of the country. He had become Attorney-General by 1863. Appointed Chief Justice of Jamaica in 1869 he was awarded CMG in the

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and knighted in 1870. He died in Worthing, Sussex in 1883. He had married in 1851 Marie van Waterschoodt, the eldest daughter of Jean R. van Waterschoodt. Their 2nd son Alfred Lucie-Smith was also a colonial judge. His grandson

Euan Lucie-Smith Euan Lucie-Smith (14 December 1889 – 25 April 1915) was a British Army second lieutenant of World War I, of mixed British and Afro-Caribbean descent. He was one of the first mixed-heritage infantry officers in a regular British Army regiment, ...

was one of the first mixed-heritage infantry officers in a regular British Army regiment, and the first killed in World War I.

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