G. M. Paterson
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| order = 1st |
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| office = Attorney General of Ghana |
| office = Attorney General of Ghana |
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| term_start = March 1957 |
| term_start = 6 March 1957 |
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| term_end = August 1957 |
| term_end = 7 August 1957 |
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| governor_general = [[Charles Arden-Clarke]] |
| governor_general = [[Charles Arden-Clarke]] |
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| prime_minister = [[Kwame Nkrumah]] |
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| successor = [[Geoffrey Bing]] |
| successor = [[Geoffrey Bing]] |
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1906|12|03}} |
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| birth_place = [[St. George's, Grenada|St. George's]], Grenada |
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1996|01|24|1906|12|03}} |
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'''George Mutlow Paterson''', {{post-nominals|post-noms= [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] [[Queen's Counsel|QC]]}} (3 December 1906 – 24 January 1996) was a British barrister and politician. |
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'''G. M. Paterson''' was a British barrister and politician. He was the [[Attorney General of Ghana]] after [[Ghana]] attained independence from the [[United Kingdom]] in 1957.{{cite book |title=Jubilee Ghana. A 50-year news journey thro' Graphic |date=2006 |publisher=Graphic Communications Group Ltd |location=Accra |isbn=9988-8097-8-6 |page=21 |quote=New job for Bing}} He was the Attorney General in [[Kwame Nkrumah]]'s [[Convention People's Party]] (CPP) government which was ruling the [[Gold Coast (British colony)|Gold Coast]] under British rule prior to 1957.{{cite book |author1=United Nations Technical Assistance Housing Mission to Ghana |title=Housing in Ghana |date=1957 |publisher=United Nations, Technical Assistance Programme |location=New York |page=147 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9RMEAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22G.+M.+Paterson%22+%22attorney+general%22&pg=PA147 |access-date=17 April 2022 |language=en |chapter=Appendix P: List of Persons And Parties Interviewed By The Mission}} He continued in the [[Nkrumah government]] until August 1957 when he was replaced by [[Geoffrey Bing]], another British barrister.{{cite web |title=PAST MINISTERS |url=http://www.mojagd.gov.gh/past-ministers |website=www.mojagd.gov.gh |publisher=Ministry of Justice and Attorney General's Department |access-date=17 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190609101245/http://www.mojagd.gov.gh/past-ministers |archive-date=9 June 2019 |location=Accra |url-status=dead}} |
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==Biography== |
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Paterson studied at [[St John's College, Cambridge]] between 1924 and 1929. He and other colleagues from the College ended up in the colonial administration of the Gold Coast.{{cite journal |editor1-last=Matthews |editor1-first=Mr |editor2-last=Salam |editor2-first=Dr |editor3-last=Stern |editor3-first=Mr |title=The Eagle |journal=[[The Eagle (magazine)|The Eagle]] |date=October 1956 |volume=LVII |issue=249 |page=64b |url=https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Eagle/Eagle%20Volumes/1950s/1956/Eagle_1956_Easter.pdf |access-date=17 April 2022 |publisher=[[St John's College, Cambridge]]}} |
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Of Scottish ancestry, Paterson was born in [[St. George's, Grenada|St. George's]], [[Grenada]], where he was educated at Grenada Boys' School. In 1924 he won a scholarship to [[St John's College, Cambridge]], where he studied [[history]]. He joined the [[Colonial Service]] after finishing his studies, and was appointed to the administration of [[Colonial Nigeria|Nigeria]] in 1929. |
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Paterson was called to the bar at the [[Inner Temple]] in 1933. He was appointed a magistrate in Nigeria in 1936, and [[Crown Counsel]] in [[Tanganyika Territory|Tanganyika]] in 1938. At the outbreak of [[World War II]] he joined the 6th [[King's African Rifles]], and was wounded at the battle of Namuruputh in 1940. In 1946 Paterson was awarded a military [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]], and was appointed Solicitor-General for Tanganyika. He was made Attorney-General for [[Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate|Sierra Leone]] in 1949, and became [[Queen's Counsel]] in 1950.{{cite news |title=Sir George Paterson |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12045357.sir-george-paterson/ |access-date=21 April 2026 |work=[[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Herald]] |date=1 February 1996}} |
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In 1954 Paterson was appointed Attorney-General of the [[Gold Coast (British colony)|Gold Coast]]; he continued as such until after the former colony's independence as [[Ghana]] in 1957, and served in the post-independence [[Nkrumah government|government]] of [[Kwame Nkrumah]] until August of that year. Paterson then continued as Chief Justice of [[Northern Rhodesia]], and was knighted in 1959. In 1961 he returned to Britain, where he retired to [[Dorset]].{{cite news |last1=Clifford |first1=Timothy |title=Obituary: Sir George Paterson |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sir-george-paterson-1316871.html |access-date=21 April 2026 |work=[[The Independent]] |date=2 February 1996}} |
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[[Category:Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge]] |
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[[Category:20th-century British lawyers]] |
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[[Category:British expatriates in Ghana]] |
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[[Category:Attorneys general of Ghana]] |
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