Sir Fenton Ramsahoye, QC, SC (20 May 1929 – 27 December 2018) was a Guyanese

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and

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who served for over twenty years in

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Biography

Ramsahoye studied at

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where he was awarded B.A. in 1949 and LL.B., LLM in 1953 and 1956. He was called to the bar at

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on 10 February 1953 and was awarded Ph.D. in Comparative Land Law from

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in 1959. Ramsahoye was at the forefront of the independence movement. In 1961 he was elected a

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and remained in parliament until 1973. He was Attorney General of British Guiana from 1961 to 1964 and a member of Board of Governors of University of Guyana from 1962 to 1964. In 2006, he held the record for making the most appearances before the

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in the

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.Antigua and Barbuda Government News
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in Guyana in 1971. From 1972 to 1975 he was Deputy Director of Legal Education for the Council of Legal Education in the West Indies and head of

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as a professor. Ramsahoye was a

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and a member of the bars of England and Wales, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica, the Territories of the Eastern Caribbean including Montserrat, and the British Virgin Islands. He was knighted in 2006 by Governor General Sir

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during a ceremony at Government House in Antigua. Ramsahoye married Phyllis Gwendolyn Lutz, the daughter of Richard Benjamin Lutz of

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. He died in

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on 27 December 2018 at the age of 89.

Publications

*''The Development of Land Law in British Guiana'' Oceana Publications, New York, 1966 )(In

References

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