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Colin MacGregor

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Sir Colin Malcolm MacGregor (10 April 1901 - 6 September 1982) was Chief Justice of Jamaica from 1957 to 1962. He was the first chief justice to be native born.

He was a deacon of the Anglican church.

He was knighted on 7 July 1959. [1]

The Colin MacGregor Memorial Prize is awarded in his memory to outstanding law students by the University of the West Indies.[2]

References

  1. ^ "No. 41764". The London Gazette. 14 July 1959. p. 4465.
  2. ^ Proud to be Jamaican. Kimone Thompson, Jamaica Observer, 5 August 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2019.