Seymour Gonne Vesey-FitzGerald
Seymour Gonne Vesey-FitzGerald, QC (30 May 1884 – 28 September 1954) was a British colonial civil servant, barrister, and legal academic.
Biography
Vesey-FitzGerald was born in 1884, the son of Percy Seymour Vesey FitzGerald, CSI, a senior member of the
Indian Civil Service, and the grandson of Sir Seymour Vesey-FitzGerald, Governor of Bombay. After attending Charterhouse School and Keble College, Oxford, he joined the ICS in 1907, serving in the Central Provinces as a registrar, district judge and eventually legal secretary to the Legislative Council
.
He returned to England in 1923 and taught Oriental laws in
School of Oriental and African Studies
and was the first head of the department from 1948, and Dean of the University of London's Faculty of Law between 1948 and 1951, when he retired. He died three years later.
References
- "Dr. S. G. Vesey-Fitzgerald", The Times, 30 September 1954, p. 8.
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