Men-at-the-Bar/Burnside, (Hon.) Sir Bruce Lockhart (Knt.)

Men-at-the-Bar
by Joseph Foster
Burnside, (Hon.) Sir Bruce Lockhart (Knt.)
3364057Men-at-the-Bar — Burnside, (Hon.) Sir Bruce Lockhart (Knt.)Joseph Foster


Burnside, (Hon.) Sir Bruce Lockhart (Knt.), chief justice of Ceylon 1884, knighted by letters patent 29 Sept., 1884, Queen's advocate Ceylon 1879-84, solicitor-general Bahamas 1864, acting attorney-general 1865, 1866, 1869, 1875, member of executive council 1866-72 and of legislative council 1872-84, member of local legislature 1859-84, speaker of House of Assembly 1866, Queen's counsel 1874, attorney-general 1875, a student of Lincoln's Inn 21 May, 1853 (then aged 19), called to the bar 30 April, 1856 [2nd son of (Hon.) John James Burnside, of Nassau, Bahamas, C.E., surveyor-general]; born 26 July, 1833.

Colombo.