Sir Herbert George Holwell Duffus, Kt, (1908-2002)
Michael Rhodes
Jamaica, and Acting Governor-General, died at the University Hospital
of the West Indies, Jamaica, 22 October, 2002. He was 94.
He was born 30 August, 1908, the son of William Alexander Duffus, JP,
and Emily Henrietta Mary Holwell, and was educated at Cornwall
College, Jamaica.
Career: admitted a solicitor, Jamaica, 1930, England, 1948; Resident
Magistrate, Jamaica, 1946-58; Puisine Judge, Jamaica, 1958-62; a Judge
of Appeal, Jamaica, 1962-64; President of the Court of Appeal,
1964-67; Chief Justice of Jamaica, 1968-73; Acting Governor-General of
Jamaica, 1968, 1973.
Chairman, Commission of Inquiry into Prisons of Jamaica, 1954;
Commission of Inquiry into administration of justice and police
brutality in Grenada, WI, 1974; Police Service Commission [Jamaica]
1958-68; Sole Commissioner: Enquiries into: Maffesanti Affair, 1968;
Operations of Private Land Developers in Jamaica 1975-76; Barbados
Government's Private Enterprises, 1977-78; Electoral Malpractices
[Jamaican Local Govt Elections] 1986; Pres. Boy Scouts Assoc. Jamaica,
1967-70; Chairman Western Regional Council, Cheshire Homes, 1975-89;
Chancellor of the Church [Anglican] in Jamaica, 1973-76, &c.
Duffus was knighted in 1966.
He married in 1939, Elsie Mary Hollinsed. There were no children of
the union.
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Michael Rhodes