Paget Bourke
Sir Paget John Bourke, SC (1906 – 7 November 1983) was an Irish barrister and British colonial judge who served as chief justice of Sierra Leone and Cyprus .
Biography
The son of H.C. Bourke, of Amana, Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland, Bourke was educated at Mount St Mary's College, Chesterfield, and at Trinity College, Dublin (Mod. BA, LLB). He was called to the Irish Bar at King's Inns in 1928.[1]
He joined the
On his retirement from the Colonial Service, he returned to Dublin and became a
He was kidnapped in Dublin in 1975, but managed to escape at the border with Northern Ireland.[2][3] He later retired to his daughter's ranch on the banks of the Kootenay River near Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada, where he died.[2]
Family
Bourke married, in 1936, Susan Dorothy (née Killeen), whose cousin of the same name, had once been Michael Collins' girlfriend.[4] They had three sons and a daughter.[2] Lady Bourke died in 1982.[2] Sir Paget Bourke was a paternal uncle of Irish president Mary Robinson.
References
- ^ Who's Who & Who Was Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ a b c d e "Sir Paget Bourke". The Times. 17 November 1983. p. 14.
- ^ "Judge Tells of 'Bungled Kidnap' Ordeal". The Daily Telegraph. 2 May 1975. p. 2.
- I.B.Tauris.