Edward Somers

Sir Edward Jonathan Somers QC (9 September 1928 – 3 June 2002) was a New Zealand jurist and member of the Privy Council.

[1] In 1952, Somers became engaged to Mollie Louise Morison, and they later married and went on to have three children.

He was appointed a judge of the Court of Appeal in 1981, a role from which he retired in 1990.

[4] In 1998, Somers was appointed by the British government to be a member of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.

[6] In the 1989 Queen's Birthday Honours, Somers was appointed a Knight Bachelor.