Joyce Rugg Gunn
British lawyer and court official
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Gertrude Joyce Rugg Gunn (31 October 1914 – after 1976), sometimes written as G. J. Rugg-Gunn, was a British lawyer and court official in Kenya. She was "the first woman to enter the legal service in the British Colonial Office" in 1946,[1] and served as acting chief registrar of the Supreme Court of Kenya in summer 1950.
31 October 1914
Joyce Rugg Gunn | |
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| Born | Gertrude Joyce Rugg Gunn 31 October 1914 Tottenham, London, England, U.K. |
| Occupations | Lawyer, colonial official in Kenya |
Early life and education
Rugg Gunn was born in Tottenham,[2] the daughter of Andrew Rugg Gunn[3] and Gertrude Martha Smith. Her father was a physician, an eye specialist, born in Scotland.[4][5] Her older brother Mark Andrew Rugg Gunn was a Navy surgeon.[6] She attended Sherborne School for Girls, Girton College, Cambridge, and Bonn University in Germany.[2]
Career
Rugg Gunn worked in the legal department of a bank and with Sybil Campbell at the Ministry of Food as a young woman.[2][7] She was "the first woman to enter the legal service in the British Colonial Office" when she became deputy registrar of the Supreme Court of Kenya at Mombasa in 1946.[1] She was appointed acting resident magistrate at Mombasa in 1947.[8] She was acting chief registrar of the Supreme Court of Kenya and the Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa in summer 1950.[9]
After Kenyan independence, Rugg Gunn was solicitor for the London County Council (LCC),[10][11][12] and later for its successor, the Greater London Council,[13][14] into the late 1970s.[15]