[1] Born in 1911 to Sierra Leone Creole parents, Bankole-Jones attended Methodist Boys' High School in Freetown and later Fourah Bay College, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1932.
He later attended Durham University, followed by the Middle Temple, before being called to the Bar in 1938.
Bankole-Jones worked as a magistrate, a puisne judge, before his appointment as Chief Justice in 1963.
[3] He was later appointed as Chancellor of the University of Sierra Leone in 1969 and Judge of the Supreme Court in 1971.
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