1. Sidney Abrahams served as Chief Justice of Ceylon and as a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
13 Facts About Sidney Abrahams
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Sidney Abrahams was the older brother of famed Olympian Harold Abrahams.
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Sidney Abrahams competed in athletics for Cambridge University from 1904 to 1906.
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Sidney Abrahams studied law at the Middle Temple and was called to the bar in 1909.
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Sidney Abrahams joined the Colonial Service and was Advocate General in Baghdad in 1920 and President of the Civil Courts in Basra in 1921.
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Sidney Abrahams then served as Chief Justice of Ceylon from 1936 to 1939 and was knighted in 1936.
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Sidney Abrahams was the founder-president of the Medico-Legal Society of Ceylon.
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Sidney Abrahams was succeeded by John Curtois Howard, after the acting Francis Soertsz.
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Sidney Abrahams chaired a Committee on the Administration of Justice in Nigeria.
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Sidney Abrahams was later Senior Legal Assistant to the Commonwealth Relations Office.
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Sidney Abrahams played a major role in the suspension of the People's Progressive Party Government of Cheddi Jagan in British Guiana in 1953.
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Sidney Abrahams was elected president of the London Athletic Club.
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Sidney Abrahams was married to Ruth Bowman and they had two children, Valerie and Anthony Sidney Abrahams.