Colin Sleeman
British judge (1914–2006)
Stuart Colin Sleeman (10 March 1914 – 14 June 2006) was a British judge. As an assistant judge advocate general, he was appointed as senior counsel for the defence in two trials of Japanese soldiers accused of war crimes held in Singapore after the end of the Second World War. He was later a circuit judge in England.
Life and education
Sleeman was born in Bristol, where his father was a solicitor. He was related to Sir William Henry Sleeman, an administrator in India in the first half of the 19th century who was responsible for suppressing the Thuggee sect. Sleeman was educated at Clifton College, and then read jurisprudence at Merton College, Oxford.
Sleeman was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1938, where he later became a bencher in 1974. He married Margaret Farmer in 1944, with whom he had two sons and a daughter (Stuart, Jeremy and Jennifer).
In the Second World War, he was initially employed in the Ministry of Economic Warfare. He was commissioned into the 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers and became a staff captain in the Royal Armoured Corps.
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