Sir William Brandford Griffith,

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(9 February 18588 January 1939) was a British legal writer and colonial judge who was the

Chief Justice of the Gold Coast The Chief Justice of Ghana is the highest-ranking judge of the Supreme Court of Ghana. The chief justice is also the head of the Judiciary of Ghana and is responsible for its administration and supervision. In order of state precedence, the chief ...

from 1895 to 1911. The eldest son of William Brandford Griffith, Governor of the

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from 1885 to 1895, he was educated at

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, graduating B.A. in 1880, and was called to the bar by the

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in 1881. In 1884 he married Eveline Florence Elizabeth Nevins, daughter of Penrose Nevins. Joseph Foster, ''The pedigrees of Jowitt, formerly of Churwell, Yorks, and now of Harehills, Leeds, and the families connected with them'', 1890 He was a magistrate in

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before his appointment as Chief Justice of the Gold Coast. He was knighted in 1898.

Publication

* Kenneth James Beatty: ''Human leopards. An account of the trials of human leopards before the Special Commission Court. With a note on Sierra Leone, past and present''. With a preface by Sir William Brandford Griffith. London, H. Rees, 1915. epr. 1978 New York, AMS Press:

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Portrait of Sir William Brandford Griffith
at National Portrait Gallery, London. 1858 births 1939 deaths Gold Coast (British colony) judges Chief justices of Ghana Attorneys General of the Colony of Jamaica Colony of Jamaica judges Colonial Nigeria judges Alumni of University College London Knights Bachelor Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Members of the Middle Temple {{Ghana-bio-stub