Saint Lucia
ALEXANDER
Darnley
LL.B. (Hons),
had two children
called to the Bar (Middle Temple) London; held many legal and judicial appoint ments in Nigeria — was Solicitor- General and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice in former Western Region, 1960-63; judge of the High Court of Lagos, 1964-69; was Chairman of the Public Enquiries into Owegbe Cult in Edo State (for merly Mid-West), 1965, and chair man of the Public Enquiries into Examination Leakages, 1968; appo inted Chief Justice of South Eastern State (now Cross River State), 1969- 75, the position he held until his appointment as Chief Justice of Nigeria August 19, 1975;
Member of the Nigerian Society of Interna tional Law; Knighted (C.B.E.), January 1963;
table tennis, swimming.
patron Lagos Amateur Cricket Club and former vice-patron Nigerian Red Cross Society South Eastern State Branch
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