William Brandford Griffith (judge)

Sir William Brandford Griffith, CBE (9 February 1858 – 8 January 1939) was a British legal writer and colonial judge who was the Chief Justice of the Gold Coast from 1895 to 1911.

[1][2] The eldest son of William Brandford Griffith, Governor of the Gold Coast from 1885 to 1895, he was educated at University College London, graduating B.A.

in 1880, and was called to the bar by the Middle Temple in 1881.

[3] He was a magistrate in Jamaica before his appointment as Chief Justice of the Gold Coast.

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