Preceded by Owen Woodhouse Succeeded by Thaddeus McCarthy | Name Clifford Richmond Died January 29, 1997 | |
Born 23 June 1914
Auckland, New Zealand ( 1914-06-23 ) Spouse(s) Valerie Jean Hamilton (m. 1939; wid. 1997) | ||
Sir Clifford Parris "Kip" Richmond (23 June 1914 – 29 January 1997) was a New Zealand lawyer and judge, and former President of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand.
Richmond attended Auckland University College and Victoria University College, graduating LLM with first-class honours in 1937. On 16 March 1938 he married Valerie Jean Hamilton at St Andrew's Church in central Auckland. During World War II he was an officer in the New Zealand Artillery.
Richmond was appointed a Judge of the New Zealand Supreme Court in 1960, and then the New Zealand Court of Appeal in 1972, and in the following year, he became a Privy Counsellor on the Judicial Committee. He was President of the Court of Appeal from 1976 until his retirement in 1981.
In the 1972 Queen's Birthday Honours he was appointed a Knight Bachelor for outstanding services to the law, and he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1977 Queen's Birthday and Silver Jubilee Honours.