HOGAN, Sir Michael (Joseph Patrick) (1908-1986)

Scope and Content

Papers relating to the assassination of Sir Henry Gurney, High Commissioner for the Federation of Malaya, by the Malayan Races' Liberation Army on 6 Oct 1951, namely an unsigned official report on the assassination and the subsequent action taken by the police and the military, written in 1951, a plan of the ambush scene, 1951, and two photographs of Gurney's funeral procession, 1951.

Administrative / Biographical History

Born in 1908; educated at Belvedere College, Dublin, Stonyhurst College, and Trinity College, Dublin; admitted solicitor, Ireland, 1930; admitted to Kenya Bar, 1931; called to Irish Bar, 1936; Chief Magistrate, Palestine, 1936; Crown Counsel, 1937; Attorney-General, Aden, 1945; called to English Bar, 1946; King's Counsel (Aden), 1946; Solicitor-General, Palestine, 1947; attached Foreign Office, 1949; Solicitor-General, Malaya, 1950; Attorney-General, Federation of Malaya, 1950-1955; Queen's Counsel (Malaya), 1952; Chief Justice of Hong Kong, 1955-1970, and Brunei, 1964-1970; Member, Courts of Appeal, the Bahamas, Bermuda and Belize, 1970-1975, and Gibraltar, 1970-1984; President, Courts of Appeal, Brunei, 1970-1973, the Bahamas, 1975-1978, Bermuda and Belize, 1975-1979, and Seychelles, 1977-1984 died in 1986

Arrangement

1 file

Access Information

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Acquisition Information

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1991.

Other Finding Aids

Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/archives/cats/, and detailed catalogue available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Conditions Governing Use

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

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