John Campbell Lees

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.

  1. ^ "Kelly's Handbook to the Upper Ten Thousand for 1878: Containing about Twenty Thousand Names of the Titled, Landed and Official Classes". Kelly and Company. 19 June 1878 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Shingleton, Royce (19 June 1994). High Seas Confederate: The Life and Times of John Newland Maffitt. Univ of South Carolina Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-0-87249-986-7 – via Internet Archive. John Campbell Lees.
  3. ^ "Knighthood - John Campbell Lees". The London Gazette (23042): 5689. 24 November 1865. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  4. ^ "Sudden Death of a Baronet on the London Underground". Daily News. London, England: 2. 18 Oct 1873. Retrieved 4 September 2022.