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Sir William Campbell Wylie (14 May 1905 – August 1992) was a New Zealand-born colonial judge who was the last Chief Justice of the Combined Judiciary of Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei and the first Chief Justice of Borneo.

Early life and education

He was born in Dannevirke, New Zealand and educated at Auckland Grammar School and the Victoria University of Wellington. He graduated in law in 1928 and practised at Kaikohe until the Second World War, when he served in the legal department of the Army in the Pacific and the Middle East.

Career

In 1946 he joined the Colonial Legal Service in British Malaya and in the 1950s was appointed Attorney-General of Barbados (1951–55) and British Guiana, after which he was Justice of Appeal in the West Indies. He was knighted in 1963.

In 1963 he was made the last Chief Justice of the Combined Judiciary of Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei and in the same year became the first Chief Justice of Borneo (until his retirement in 1965). In retirement he was briefly involved in law reform in Tonga and the Seychelles.

He married Leita Clark in 1933.

References

1. "Sir Campbell Wylie, 1905 - 1992". New Zealand Law Society. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
2. "No. 43383". The London Gazette. 17 July 1964. p. 6097.
3. "1966: Law Revision Commissioner arrives". (Tongan) Ministry of Information & Communications, Nuku'alofa. Retrieved 6 October 2015.

• 1905 births
• 1992 deaths
• 20th-century New Zealand judges
• People educated at Auckland Grammar School
• Attorneys-general of the Colony of Barbados
• Chief justices of Malaysia
• Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei judges
• Knights Bachelor
• People from Dannevirke
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• Attorneys-general of British Guiana
• Colonial Legal Service officers