John Campbell Lees Explained

Sir John Campbell Lees (27 January 1793 – 17 October 1873) was an English lawyer and colonial judge.

He served as Chief Justice of the Bahamas from 1836 or 1837 to 1865.^[1] He was also a judge of the Vice Admiralty Court of the Bahamas.^[2] Lees was knighted in 1865.^[3]

He died suddenly on 17 October 1873 while travelling on the London Underground.^[4] His son, Sir Charles Cameron Lees, served as the governor of a number of British colonies and possessions between 1874 and 1895.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Kelly's Handbook to the Upper Ten Thousand for 1878: Containing about Twenty Thousand Names of the Titled, Landed and Official Classes. 19 June 1878. Kelly and Company. Google Books.
2. Book: Shingleton, Royce . High Seas Confederate: The Life and Times of John Newland Maffitt . 19 June 1994 . Univ of South Carolina Press . 128 . John Campbell Lees. . Royce Shingleton . registration . Internet Archive.
3. Knighthood - John Campbell Lees . The London Gazette . 24 November 1865 . 23042 . 5689 . 4 September 2022.
4. Sudden Death of a Baronet on the London Underground . Daily News . 18 Oct 1873 . 2 . 4 September 2022 . London, England.