Joyce Rugg Gunn
Joyce Rugg Gunn | |
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| Born | Gertrude Joyce Rugg Gunn 31 October 1914 Tottenham, London, England, U.K. |
| Occupation(s) | Lawyer, colonial official in Kenya |
Gertrude Joyce Rugg Gunn (31 October 1914 – after 1976), sometimes written as G. J. Rugg-Gunn, was a British lawyer and court official in Kenya. She was "the first woman to enter the legal service in the British Colonial Office" in 1946,[1] and served as acting chief registrar of the Supreme Court of Kenya in summer 1950.
Early life and education
[edit]Rugg Gunn was born in Tottenham,[2] the daughter of Andrew Rugg Gunn[3] and Gertrude Martha Smith. Her father was a physician, an eye specialist, born in Scotland.[4][5] Her older brother Mark Andrew Rugg Gunn was a Navy surgeon.[6] She attended Sherborne School for Girls, Girton College, Cambridge, and Bonn University in Germany.[2]
Career
[edit]Rugg Gunn worked in the legal department of a bank and with Sybil Campbell at the Ministry of Food as a young woman.[2][7] She was "the first woman to enter the legal service in the British Colonial Office" when she became deputy registrar of the Supreme Court of Kenya at Mombasa in 1946.[1] She was appointed acting resident magistrate at Mombasa in 1947.[8] She was acting chief registrar of the Supreme Court of Kenya and the Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa in summer 1950.[9]
After Kenyan independence, Rugg Gunn was solicitor for the London County Council (LCC),[10][11][12] and later for its successor, the Greater London Council,[13][14] into the late 1970s.[15]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Joyce Rugg Gunn Legal Worker". The Edmonton Bulletin. 1946-09-28. p. 12. Retrieved 2025-07-07 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c "From Harley Street to Kenya". Marylebone and Paddington Mercury. 1946-08-31. p. 1. Retrieved 2025-07-07 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Rugg-Gunn (death notice)". The Daily Telegraph. 1972-09-02. p. 30. Retrieved 2025-07-07 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Obituary: Andrew Rugg-Gunn, 1884-1972". British Journal of Ophthalmology. 56 (11): 862. 1972. Archived from the original on 2025-03-05. Retrieved 2025-07-07.
- ^ "Rugg-Gunn, Andrew (1884 - 1972)". Plarr's Lives of the Fellows, Royal College of Surgeons of England. Retrieved 2025-07-07.
- ^ "Mark Andrew Rugg-Gunn". RCP Museum. Retrieved 2025-07-07.
- ^ "Woman Sets Precedent in U.K. Colonial Office". The Montreal Star. 1946-09-28. p. 8. Retrieved 2025-07-07 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Thornley, C. H., "Appointments" Archived 2024-05-21 at the Wayback Machine The Official Gazette of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya (April 8, 1947): 328.
- ^ "Supreme Court Vacation" Archived 2024-06-15 at the Wayback Machine The Official Gazette of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya (June 27, 1950): 504.
- ^ "Fire Station in Brompton Road: Denied by LCC". Westminster and Pimlico News. 1962-03-09. p. 7. Retrieved 2025-07-07 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Poet Christopher Logue defies to L. C. C. Over Market Antique Arcade". The Kensington News and West London Times. 1963-11-29. p. 13. Retrieved 2025-07-07 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Removals Firm Appeals Against Ban on Extension; L.C.C. Plans for Hippodrome Place". The Kensington News and West London Times. 1964-07-31. p. 10. Retrieved 2025-07-07 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Stilt roads stamped on hotel plan". Hammersmith and Shepherds Bush Gazette. 1967-09-14. p. 11. Retrieved 2025-07-07 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Objectors and '21 years of planning blight'". Fulham and Hammersmith Chronicle. 1969-11-21. p. 9. Retrieved 2025-07-07 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "sidelines: Advice for disabled...safer cots...family help". The Guardian. 1977-01-03. p. 7. Retrieved 2025-07-07 – via Newspapers.com.