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

Biography

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

  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
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Alfred_Sheridan
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