Sir Philip Crampton Smyly (28 March 1866–1953) was a British judge and colonial administrator.
Smyly was the son of the surgeon Sir Philip Crampton Smyly, Surgeon-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria and to successive Lords-Lieutenant of Ireland, and grandson of Ellen Smyly. [1] His mother was the Hon. Selina Marina Plunket, daughter of the 3rd Baron Plunket.
He was Attorney General of Sierra Leone when he was appointed Chief Justice of that protectorate in November 1901. [2] He was knighted in 1905 and held the post until 1911.
His photographs from his stay in Sierra Leone are kept as part of the Royal Commonwealth Society collection held in the Cambridge University Library. [3]
He was appointed Chief Justice of the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana) on 14 September 1911. [4]
The Governor at the time of his appointment in the Gold Coast was Sir James Thorburn, but most of his career in the Gold Coast was under two Governors of unusual qualities, Sir Hugh Clifford (1912–1919) and Sir Gordon Guggisberg (1919–1927).
Smyly married, in 1905, his cousin Aileen Smyly, daughter of Sir William Josiah Smyly (1850–1941), President Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, by Eleanor Colpoyse Tweedy. [5] [6]
Sir William Ridgeway, FBA FRAI was an Anglo-Irish classical scholar and the Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge.
Sir William MacCormac, 1st Baronet, was a notable British surgeon during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. MacCormac was a strong advocate of the antiseptic surgical methods proposed by Joseph Lister and he served in conflicts such as the Boer War. An advocate and pioneer of the Royal Army Medical Corps, MacCormac was perhaps the most decorated surgeon in Britain and he served as Serjeant Surgeon to Edward VII.
William Dermod O'Brien PRHA DL Hon RA, commonly known as Dermod O'Brien, was an Irish painter, chiefly of landscapes and portraits. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
Major Philip Albert Meldon was an Irish cricketer and a British Army officer in more than one war.
Sir James Jamieson Thorburn was a British colonial administrator, Governor of the Gold Coast from 1910 to 1912.
Mount Jerome Cemetery & Crematorium is situated in Harold's Cross on the south side of Dublin, Ireland. Since its foundation in 1836, it has witnessed over 300,000 burials. Originally an exclusively Protestant cemetery, Roman Catholics have also been buried there since the 1920s.
John Farrell Easmon, MRCS, LM, LKQCP, MD, CMO, was a prominent Sierra Leonean Creole medical doctor in the British Gold Coast who served as Chief Medical Officer during the 1890s. Easmon was the only West African to be promoted to Chief Medical Officer and he served in this role with distinction during the last decade of the 19th century. Easmon was a botanist and a noted expert on the study and treatment of tropical diseases. In 1884, he wrote a pamphlet entitled The Nature and Treatment of Blackwater Fever, which noted for the first time the relationship between blackwater fever and malaria. Easmon coined the term "blackwater fever" in his pamphlet on the malarial disease.
Gilbert Shuldham Shaw was an Anglo-Irish Church of England priest, from 1940 vicar of St Anne's Soho. His maternal grandfather was Sir Philip Crampton Smyly, honorary physician to Queen Victoria, and he was baptised by his mother's uncle, William Conyngham Plunket, archbishop of Dublin. He was closely associated with the Community of the Sisters of the Love of God from 1962 until his death.
Sir Philip Crampton, 1st Baronet, FRSMRCSI was an eminent Irish surgeon and anatomist. He was President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in 1811, 1820, 1844 and 1855.
Benjamin John Plunket was a 20th-century Anglican bishop in Ireland.
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Ghana, known as the Gold Coast before independence.
Charles Kendal Bushe, was an Irish lawyer and judge. Known as "silver-tongued Bushe" because of his eloquence, he was Solicitor-General for Ireland from 1805 to 1822 and Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland from 1822 to 1841.
Ellen Smyly was an Irish charity worker.
The Supreme Court of Sierra Leone is the highest court in Sierra Leone. It has final jurisdiction in all civil, criminal, and constitutional cases within Sierra Leone, and its decisions cannot be appealed. The Supreme Court has the exclusive constitutional power to overturn ruling of lower courts within the jurisdiction of Sierra Leone. The Supreme Court, along with the Court of Appeals, High Court of Justice, and magistrate courts form the Judicial branch of the Government of Sierra Leone.
Smyly is a surname, and may refer to:
The MacCormac family is a family of Northern Irish ancestry that originates in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The MacCormac family produced four medical doctors and at least three members of the family received knighthoods during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The family is of Ulster ancestry and perhaps also has some distant English ancestry through Colonel Joseph Hall of Hall Place, Lurgan.
Arthur Ernest Guinness was an Irish engineer and a senior member of the Guinness family. He usually went by the name of Ernest.
Sir Philip Crampton Smyly BA MB FRCSI (1838–1904), was Surgeon-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria in Ireland until her death, and honorary surgeon to King Edward. He was president of the Laryngological Association of Great Britain in 1889, of the Irish Medical Association in 1900, and of the Irish Medical Schools and Graduates' Association in 1902. He was consulting surgeon to the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat and Ear, the Children's Hospital, Harcourt Street, and the Rotunda Hospital Dublin.
Joseph Thacker was an Anglican priest in the nineteenth century, and was the Archdeacon of Ossory from 1860 until his death in 1883.
Sir Edward Charles Frederick Garraway, KCMG was an Irish-born doctor and British colonial administrator who served as British Resident Commissioner in Bechuanaland and Basutoland.