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Joseph Alfred Sheridan

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Sir Joseph Sheridan
Chief Justice of Kenya
In office
1934–1946
Preceded bySir Jacob Barth
Succeeded bySir Barclay Nihill
Chief Justice of Tanganyika
In office
1929–1936
Preceded bySir Alison Russell
Succeeded bySir Sidney Abrahams
Personal details
Born1882
County Mayo, Ireland
Died26 December 1964

Sir Joseph Alfred Sheridan (1882 – 26 December 1964) was an Irish lawyer and administrator who served as the Chief Justice of Kenya.

Biography

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Born in County Mayo, Ireland in 1882. He was educated at Castleknock College and Trinity College, Dublin.[1] He was called to the Bar at King's Inns in Ireland in 1907 and thereafter entered the British Colonial Service in Nyasaland in 1908 as a junior clerk.[2] In 1912, he was appointed assistant to the Attorney-General of Nyasaland and remained in the post until 1913 when he moved to the East Africa Protectorate to become a Resident Magistrate.[3] In 1919, he was made a Judge on the East Africa Court of Appeal. The following year, he was promoted to a Judgeship on the Supreme Court for Eastern Africa.[4] In 1929, he left Kenya to take up the position as Chief Justice of Tanganyika. He was knighted in the 1932 King's Birthday Honours; returning to Kenya in 1934 to succeed Sir Jacob Barth as Chief Justice of Kenya.[5] He retired as Chief Justice in 1946 and died in December 1964.[citation needed]

His son, Sir Dermot (Joseph) Sheridan, later served as Chief Justice of Uganda and as a judge on the High Court of Kenya.

References

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  1. ^ Michael O'Sullivan, Mary Robinson: The Life and Times of an Irish Liberal, Blackwater Press, 1993
  2. ^ Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, The Catholic Who's who and Yearbook, Volume 34, Burns & Oates, 1935
  3. ^ Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, The Catholic Who's who and Yearbook, Volume 34, Burns & Oates, 1935
  4. ^ Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, The Catholic Who's who and Yearbook, Volume 34, Burns & Oates, 1935
  5. ^ Law journal, 1965, The Law Journal, Volume 115