Ivo Rigby
Ivo Rigby | |
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 Sir Ivo Rigby, Chief Justice of Hong Kong | |
| Born | Ivo Charles Clayton Rigby 19 April 1911 |
| Died | 2 June 1987 (aged 76) |
| Occupation | Chief Justice of Hong Kong |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service |  British Army |
| Years of service | 1931-1935 |
| Unit | 13th London Regiment 5th Battalion Norfolks[2] |
Sir Ivo Charles Clayton Rigby (2 June 1911 – 19 April 1987) was a British lawyer and judge. He was Chief Justice of Hong Kong in the early 1970s.
Early life
Rigby was born on 2 June 1911 in Yarmouth, Norfolk.[3] He was the only son of James Philip Clayton Rigby.[4]
He was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford. He read for the bar at the Inner Temple and was called in 1932. He practised on the South Eastern Circuit, London and Norwich until 1935.
He married Agnes Bothway of Norwich on the Island of Madeira in 1937. They divorced in 1948 and he remarried to Kathleen Nancy Jones.
Legal career
In 1935, he was appointed a Police Magistrate in Bathurst, Gambia in 1935. In 1941, he was appointed a Crown Counsel in Palestine. Between 1945 and 1948 he served as President of the District Court of Palestine, at Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa.
He then served as the Assistant Judge in Nyasaland (now Malawi) between 1948 and 1954.
In 1948 he was transferred to Malaya where between 1954 and 1956 he was President of the Sessions Court, Kuala Lumpur. In 1956, he was appointed Puisne Judge in Malaya, based in Penang.
In 1961, he was appointed Senior Puisne Judge in Hong Kong.[5] He acted as Chief Justice on a number of occasions. In 1970, he was appointed Chief Justice of Hong Kong replacing Sir Michael Hogan.
He was knighted in 1964.[6]
Military Appointments
Rigby served in the Territorial Army in England between 1931 and 1935. He also served in the Palestine Volunteer Defence Force, Jerusalem from 1941 until it was disbanded in August 1943.
Other interests
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Rigby was President of the Hong Kong Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Chairman of the Hong Kong Squash Association.
He also owned a number of racehorses in Hong Kong including, "Mabrouk" and "Inshallah".
Retirement
Rigby retired to England in 1973. In England, he was appointed a Recorder and a Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate.[7]
Death
Rigby died on 19 April 1987 at the age of 75 in Brunei.[8]
References
- ^ "*The Orders and Medals awarded to Sir Ivo Rigby, Chief Justice of Hong Kong, and formerly a gover".
- ^ "*The Orders and Medals awarded to Sir Ivo Rigby, Chief Justice of Hong Kong, and formerly a gover".
- ^ This and other biographical information, unless otherwise stated, from Rigby's Who's Who in Hong Kong 1970–73 entry.
- ^ The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884–1942), 28 January 1937, p. 9.
- ^ London Gazette, 18 July 1961, p. 5280.
- ^ London Gazette, 11 August 1964, p. 6797.
- ^ London Gazette, 6 November 1975, p. 13989 and 25 June 1976, p. 8867.
- ^ Solicitors' Journal, Vol. 131, 1987, p. 590.
- 1911 births
- Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong
- British Hong Kong judges
- Knights Bachelor
- Members of the Inner Temple
- People educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford
- 1987 deaths
- 20th-century British lawyers
- Mandatory Palestine judges
- Nyasaland judges
- Gambia Colony and Protectorate judges
- British Malaya judges
- Stipendiary magistrates (England and Wales)