Norman Whitley
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Representing  United Kingdom
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1908 London | Team competition |
Sir Norman Henry Pownall Whitley, KCB, MC (29 June 1883 – 12 April 1957) was a British Army officer and supreme court judge. He was a silver medallist in lacrosse at the 1908 Summer Olympics.[1]
Biography
[edit]Whitley was born in Chorlton, Manchester, and educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He entered the Inner Temple to study law and was called to the bar in 1907.
In the 1908 Summer Olympics hosted by Great Britain, Whitley was a member of the British Lacrosse team, which went on to win a silver medal, losing to Canada in the final.
On the outbreak of the First World War, he was commissioned into the Manchester Regiment and, after basic training, was sent to Gallipoli, where he was awarded the Military Cross.[2] After evacuation from Gallipoli, he served in Palestine and Arabia and was demobilized in 1920 with the rank of Major.
Returning to the legal profession, he was appointed a Deputy Public Prosecutor in Penang in 1920 but soon afterward (1922) transferred to the Straits Settlements (Singapore) in the same capacity. In 1929, he was appointed a Puisne Judge and then Judge and Acting Chief Justice for the Federated Malay States. Finally, in 1937, he was appointed Chief Justice of Uganda, serving until his retirement in 1947. He was knighted (KCB) in 1941. He was later Chairman of the Uganda Cotton Industry Commission.
He married Florence May Erskine and had five children. His son Peter married Lady Mary Cambridge.
References
[edit]- ^ "Norman Whitley". Olympedia. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
- ^ "No. 12947". The Edinburgh Gazette. 5 June 1916. p. 1004.
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- 1883 births
- 1957 deaths
- Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
- Members of the Inner Temple
- Lacrosse players at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Olympic lacrosse players for Great Britain
- Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain
- People from Chorlton-cum-Hardy
- Recipients of the Military Cross
- Knights Companion of the Order of the Bath
- Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Federated Malay States judges
- Uganda Protectorate judges
- People from the Straits Settlements
- Manchester Regiment officers
- British Army personnel of World War I
- Lawyers from Manchester
- Military personnel from Manchester