Sir James Henley Coussey was a jurist in Gold Coast.
10 Facts About James Coussey
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James Coussey was conferred with a knighthood by King George VI in the 1950 Birthday Honours.
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James Coussey was the son of Charles Louis Romaine Pierre Coussey, a lawyer and merchant of the United Africa Company, and Ambah Orbah.
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James Coussey later married Sir Hugh Wooding, a jurist from Trinidad and Tobago.
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James Coussey was called to the bar at Middle Temple on 16 April 1913, on the same evening as Sir Stafford Cripps.
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James Coussey married Irene Dorothy Biney, the daughter of Joseph Edward Biney, a barrister from Cape Coast, Gold Coast, who held shares in the Ashanti Goldfields, and Jessica Russell, in 1930 in Accra, and had issue:.
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James Coussey had Muriel Selby Coussey and Charles Coussey with his first wife, the late Gladys Agyeampong.
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James Coussey died on Friday, 6 June 1958, in Accra, Dominion of Ghana, aged 67 years.
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James Coussey had retired from his work in January 1958.
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The High Commissioner of Ghana to the United Kingdom, Sir Ian Maclennan, and the Governor-General of Nigeria, Sir James Coussey Robertson, were in attendance.