Donald Kingdon

Donald Kingdon was a British judicial officer who was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria from 1929-1946. He is Nigeria's longest serving Chief Justice and served under four colonial Governors: Graeme Thomson, Donald Cameron, Bernard Bourdillon and Arthur Richards. He was the Attorney-General of Nigeria from 1919 to 1925. He was a man of great learning who edited and wrote books on West African laws.

Kingdon was born on November 24, 1883, the son of Walter Kingdon. He studied at Eastbourne College and St John's College, Cambridge. Kingdon worked for the Colonial Service in The Gambia as an Inspector of Schools and Legal Assistant, he was later appointed as a member of the country's Legislative Council. He was Attorney-General(AG) of Uganda, and in 1918, he was appointed as AG of the Gold Coast.

Between 1929 and 1930, two women led revolts against taxation in Calabar and Owerri Provinces claimed the lives of 55 people. In 1930, Kingdon was appointed as head of a commission to investigate the riots. The commission report's noted inadequate police training and undue restriction placed on the police in the investigation of criminal activities contributed to the breakdown of law and order in those provinces.

Kingdon lost a daughter who was killed by a bomb blast in 1941.

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