Sydney Kentridge
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Sydney Woolf Kentridge KCMG QC |
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| Born |
5 November 1922 Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Alma mater |
University of Witwatersrand (graduated 1942) Exeter College, Oxford (graduated 1948) |
| Occupation | Barrister, anti-apartheid activist and judge |
| Years active | 1949–2013 |
| Known for | Apartheid-era political trials |
| Spouse(s) | Felicia Kentridge (née Geffen, m. 1952–2015, her death) |
| Children | 4 |
Sir Sydney Kentridge KCMG, QC (born 5 November 1922) is a South African-born former lawyer, judge and member of the English Bar. He practised law in South Africa and the United Kingdom from the 1940s until his retirement in 2013, and played a leading role in a number of the most significant political trials in apartheid-era South Africa, including the Treason Trial of Nelson Mandela and the 1978 inquest into the death of Stephen Biko. Kentridge's wife, Felicia Kentridge, was also a leading anti-apartheid lawyer.
Kentridge was born in 1922 in Johannesburg, the son of Lithuanian-born Jewish lawyer and politician Morris Kentridge (1881–1964). Sydney Kentridge attended Johannesburg's King Edward VII School, before studying at the University of Witwatersrand. He graduated in 1942, and served during the Second World War as an intelligence officer in the South African Army in East Africa and Italy. After the war, he attended Exeter College, Oxford, on an ex-serviceman's grant, and graduated with a first-class BA in Jurisprudence in 1948.
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