Norman Whitley

Sir Norman Henry Pownall Whitley was a British lacrosse player, barrister and colonial judge who won a silver medal with the Great Britain team at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Born in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, on 29 June 1883, he was educated in the lacrosse stronghold of Manchester and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he played in the first Varsity Match in 1903, won by Cambridge 19 to 6, took a second Blue as captain in 1904 and a third in 1905. A centre, he played regularly in the North against South match, represented Lancashire and England and helped South Manchester win the English Club Championship for the Iroquois Cup. Called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1907, he served in the Manchester Regiment in the First World War, rose to major and won the Military Cross. He later held judicial posts in the East and was Chief Justice of Uganda from 1937 to 1947. He was knighted in 1941 and died in Cape Town on 12 April 1957.