Edgar Unsworth

Sir Edgar Ignatius Godfrey Unsworth, KBE, CMG, QC (18 April 1906 – 15 March 2006) was a British lawyer and judge. He served as both Chief Justice of Gibraltar and as Attorney-General for Northern Rhodesia during his long legal career.

He attended Stonyhurst College and Manchester University (LLB Hons). At the time of his death, he was the second to last surviving holder of the title “King's Counsel”, which was discontinued in 1952 upon the accession of Elizabeth II to the Crown.

Death

He died in 2006, a month before his centenary. He never married.

External links

• Obituary notice

Sources

• Burke's Peerage & Gentry LLC. (Burke's Peerage & Baronetage 107th Edition, Burke's Landed Gentry 19th Edition)
• Burke's Peerage Partnership. (Burke's Landed Gentry 18th Edition)