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GEOFFREY GOULD BRIGGS
1914.
Mr Geoffrey Gould Briggs was born on May 6,
He was educated at Sherborne School and Christ
Church College, Oxford.
He was called to the Bar (Grays Inn) in 1938.
He served in the Army from 1939 to 1946 and
was appointed Crown Counsel in Nigeria in January
1947. He was promoted to Senior Crown Counsel in
1951; Legal Secretary, Eastern Region, Nigeria, in
1952; and Attorney General, Eastern Region, Nigeria
in 1954. Mr Briggs was appointed as a Puisne Judge
in the Unified Judiciary of Sarawak, North Borneo
and Brunei, in August 1958 and as Chief Justice of
the Western Pacific in February 1962.
He transferred to the service of the Government
of Hong Kong as a Puisne Judge in February 1965.