Donald King (lawyer)

Ralph Malcolm Macdonald King,

Attorney-General of Nyasaland from 1957 to 1961.^[1]^[2]

The son of Dr James Malcolm King, a

Hong Kong Volunteers, and was later commissioned into the Middlesex Regiment.^[1]^[2]

Taken prisoner by the Japanese on Boxing Day, 1941, shortly after the

After the war, King returned to Hong Kong, but left after a week due to the city's condition. He joined the

Colonial Legal Service in 1947. He was first posted to Somaliland as a legal officer, being promoted to crown counsel in 1950. The same year, he was called to the English bar by Gray's Inn. In 1953, he was appointed Solicitor-General of Nyasaland, and in 1957 he was appointed Attorney-General. His tenure coincided with a critical period in the history of Nyasaland, which included the return of Dr Hastings Banda and the outbreak of nationalist disturbances against the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, which led to the declaration of a state of emergency and the Devlin Commission

.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Donald King". The Times. 7 May 1997. p. 23.
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[:0-1] "Donald King". The Times. 7 May 1997. p. 23.

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