Sir Michael James Kerry
KCB QC MA (5 August 1923 – 11 May 2012) was a British lawyer and civil servant who held the official titles of
Her Majesty's Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor from 1980 to 1984.
Michael James Kerry was educated at
Rugby School and
St John's College, Oxford
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.
[Obituary, ''The Times'', London, 21 May 2012] During the
Second World War, he served as an
RAF pilot-officer and was trained in
Japanese and
codebreaking at the
School of Oriental and African Studies and
Bletchley Park. In June 1944 he went to the
Wireless Experimental Centre in
Delhi,
India. He was
called to the Bar
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by
Lincoln's Inn
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in 1949 and joined the Solicitor's Department of the then
Board of Trade
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in 1951. Following involvement with the case of the wreck of the ''
Torrey Canyon'' in 1967, he was the UK representative to the
Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization and was a founder member of its Legal Committee.
Michael Kerry was made a
Companion of the Order of the Bath
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in 1976 and a
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the
New Year Honours of 1983. He was appointed
Queen's Counsel in 1984. After retiring from the
Government Legal Service in 1984, Sir Michael became the first dedicated legal adviser to
GCHQ 1984–1990.
Sir Michael was an
Honorary Fellow of
St John's College,
Oxford.
References
External links
Burke's Peerage
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1923 births
2012 deaths
People educated at Rugby School
Alumni of St John's College, Oxford
Royal Air Force personnel of World War II
Treasury Solicitors
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
English King's Counsel
Members of Lincoln's Inn
GCHQ people
20th-century English lawyers