William Campbell Wylie

New Zealand-born colonial judge

BornWilliam Campbell Wylie
(1905-05-14)14 May 1905

DiedAugust 1992(1992-08-00) (aged 87)

Sir William Campbell Wylie

Attorney General of British Guiana
In office 1955–1956
Attorney General of Barbados
In office 1951–1955

Personal details
Born	William Campbell Wylie (1905-05-14)14 May 1905 Dannevirke, New Zealand
Died	August 1992(1992-08-00) (aged 87)

Sir William Campbell Wylie (14 May 1905 – August 1992) was a New Zealand-born colonial judge who was the last Chief Justice of the Combined Judiciary of Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei and the first Chief Justice of Borneo.^[1]

He was born in Dannevirke, New Zealand and educated at Auckland Grammar School and the Victoria University of Wellington. He graduated in law in 1928 and practised at Kaikohe until the Second World War, when he served in the legal department of the Army in the Pacific and the Middle East.

Career

In 1946 he joined the Colonial Legal Service in British Malaya and in the 1950s was appointed Attorney-General of Barbados (1951–55) and British Guiana, after which he was Justice of Appeal in the West Indies. He was knighted in 1963.^[2]

In 1963 he was made the last Chief Justice of the Combined Judiciary of Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei and in the same year became the first Chief Justice of Borneo (until his retirement in 1965). In retirement he was briefly involved in law reform in Tonga and the Seychelles.

He married Leita Clark in 1933.^[3]

References

↑ "Sir Campbell Wylie, 1905 - 1992". New Zealand Law Society. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
↑ "No. 43383". The London Gazette. 17 July 1964. p. 6097.
↑ "1966: Law Revision Commissioner arrives". (Tongan) Ministry of Information & Communications, Nuku'alofa. Retrieved 6 October 2015.

Legal offices

New creation

Chief Justice of Borneo
1963–1965

Succeeded by

Sir Philip Ernest Housden Pike

Preceded by

Sir John Ainley

Chief Justice of the Combined Judiciary of Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei
1963

Formation of the office of Chief Justice of Borneo following formation of Malaysia

Preceded by

Edward Keith Walcott

Attorney-General of Barbados
1951–1955

Succeeded by

Sir Frederick Smith

v t e Chief judges of Sabah and Sarawak
Chief justices of Sarawak (1930–1951)	Thomas Jamieson Laycock Stirling Boyd H. Thackwell-Lewis Robert Yorke Hedges
Chief justices of North Borneo (1934–1951)	Charles Frederick Cunningham Macaskie Ivor Llewellyn Brace
Chief justices of the Combined Judiciary of Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei (1951–1963)	Ivor Llewellyn Brace Ernest Hillas Williams John Ainley William Campbell Wylie
Chief justices of Borneo (1963–1994)	William Campbell Wylie Philip Ernest Housden Pike Ismail Khan Ibrahim Khan Lee Hun Hoe Mohamad Jemuri Serjan
Chief judges of Sabah and Sarawak (1994–present)	Mohamad Jemuri Serjan Chong Siew Fai Steve Shim Lip Kiong Richard Malanjum David Wong Dak Wah Abang Iskandar Abang Hashim

v t e Attorneys-general of Barbados
Colonial era	Hooper Chilton Blenman Blenman H. Beckles Burnett Chester Burnett Jones J. Beckles Sharpe Sealey Fleming Reeves Bovell Goodman Clarke Collymore Walcott Wylie
Independence era	Smith Moe Forde Tull Simmons King Simmons Mottley Marshall Stuart Brathwaite Marshall

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