The Honourable Doctor Robert Yorke Hedges

Barrister
Born
6 August 1903, Chorlton RD (Lancashire), England
Died
29 May 1963, Westminster, England
Sex
Male
Father
James Hedges
Mother
Ethel Louise Haynes
Married Mary De Hoghton Birtwell

Legal admissions

Degrees

1939Doctor of Laws (ad eundum gradum)The University of Queensland

Career

  • LLD Manc.
  • Called to the Bar (Gray's Inn).
  • Garrick Prof of Law, UQld.
  • Chief Justice of Sarawak 1946-51.
  • Puisne Judge, Supreme Court of Nigeria 1952-63.

Military service

  • Second World War: British Army.

Sources

Other:
  • London Gazette 1952 p4588, FreeBMD, Ancestry.
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