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Sir Joseph Alfred Sheridan (1882 – 26 December 1964) was an Irish lawyer and administrator who served as the Chief Justice of Kenya.

Biography

Born in County Mayo, Ireland in 1882. He was educated at Castleknock College and Trinity College, Dublin. He was called to the Bar at King's Inns in Ireland in 1907 and thereafter entered the British Colonial Service in Nyasaland in 1908 as a junior clerk. In 1912, he was appointed assistant to the Attorney-General of Nyasaland and remained in the post until 1913 when he moved to the East Africa Protectorate to become a Resident Magistrate. In 1919, he was made a Judge on the East Africa Court of Appeal. The following year, he was promoted to a Judgeship on the Supreme Court for Eastern Africa. In 1929, he left Kenya to take up the position as Chief Justice of Tanganyika. He was knighted in the 1932 King's Birthday Honours; returning to Kenya in 1934 to succeed Sir Jacob Barth as Chief Justice of Kenya. He retired as Chief Justice in 1946 and died in December 1964.

Michael O'Sullivan, Mary Robinson: The Life and Times of an Irish Liberal, Blackwater Press, 1993
Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, The Catholic Who's who and Yearbook, Volume 34, Burns & Oates, 1935
Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, The Catholic Who's who and Yearbook, Volume 34, Burns & Oates, 1935
Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, The Catholic Who's who and Yearbook, Volume 34, Burns & Oates, 1935
Law journal, 1965, The Law Journal, Volume 115

Tanganyika Territory	Carter Russell Sheridan Abrahams Dalton Webb Paul Cox Davies Windham
Tanganyika	Windham
Tanzania	Windham Georges Saidi Nyalali Samatta Ramadhani Othman Juma

East Africa Protectorate	Hamilton
Kenya Colony	Barth Sheridan Nihill Hearne O'Connor Sinclair Ainley
Republic of Kenya	Ainley Mwendwa Wicks Simpson Madan Miller Hancox Apaloo Cockar Chesoni Chunga Gicheru Mutunga Maraga Martha Koome