Donald Kingdon

Sir Donald Kingdon (24 November 1883 – 17 December 1961) was a British judicial officer who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria from 1929 to 1946.

He also served as the Attorney-General of Nigeria, from 1919 to 1925, and edited and composed several authoritative books about West African laws.

Kingdon worked for the Colonial Service in Gambia as an Inspector of Schools and Legal Assistant, and later was a member of the country's Legislative Council.

[2] Kingdon was appointed as the head of a commission to investigate the 1929 and 1930 insurrections against taxation in the Calabar and Owerri Provinces that killed 55 people.

[3] The commission report found that inadequate police training and undue restriction on the investigation of criminality contributed to the violations of law.