Sir ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ...

Stafford William Powell Foster-Sutton (24 December 1897 – 6 November 1991) was a British judge, who served as

Chief Justice of Nigeria The Chief Justice of Nigeria or CJN is the head of the judicial arm of the government of Nigeria, and presides over the country's Supreme Court and the National Judicial Council. The current Chief Justice is Olukayode Ariwoola who was appo ...

from 1955 to 1958.

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1897 births 1991 deaths Place of birth missing British expatriates in Nigeria Colonial Nigeria judges Chief justices of Nigeria {{Nigeria-law-bio-stub