John Bowes Griffin’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Chief justice of uganda
Was Judge 
Lawyer 
From Uganda 
Type Law 
Gender male
Birth 19 April 1903
Death 2 February 1992
(aged 88 years)
Star sign Aries

John Bowes Griffin QC (19 April 1903 – 2 February 1992) was a British lawyer and judge. He served as a government lawyer and judge in a number of British colonies in the mid 20th Century.
His last positions were as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Uganda and speaker of the Ugandan Parliament.

Early life

Griffin was born on 19 April 1903. He was the only son of Charles James Griffin, who had served as attorney general of Gibraltar, chief justice of the Leeward Islands, and chief justice of Uganda.

Griffin was educated at Clongowes. He attended Dublin University where he graduated with a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Laws and Cambridge. He was called to the bar of the Inner Temple in 1926.

Soon after being called to the bar, in 1927, Griffin was appointed an administrative officer in Uganda. In 1929, he was appointed assistant district officer and registrar of the High Court. In the early 1930s, he was appointed Crown Counsel and in that position acted as solicitor general and attorney general for various periods. He was appointed attorney general in the Bahamas (1936–39), acting as governor and chief justice for various periods. He was made a King’s Counsel while serving in the Bahamas.

In 1939, he was appointed solicitor general of Palestine. At the end of World War II, in 1946, he was appointed attorney general of Hong Kong, serving there until 1951.

In 1952, Griffin returned to Uganda as chief justice and served in that position until his early retirement due to ill health in December 1956. He was knighted in 1955.

Post-retirement appointments

Griffin acted as chief justice of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in 1957. From 1958 to 1962, he served as the speaker of the Legislative Council in Uganda and from 1962 to 1963 as the speaker of the Ugandan National Assembly.

He was made a commander of the Venerable Order of St John in 1960.

He was appointed to a number of other positions in Africa until his final retirement in 1965.

Death

Griffin retired to Sliema, Malta where he lived on the Tigne Sea Front.

He died on 2 February 1992.

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