Donald Kingdon
Articles with hCards

Sir Donald Kingdon (rayuwa daga 24 Nuwamba 1883 - 17 Disamba 1961). jami'in shari'a ne na Burtaniya wanda ya yi aiki a matsayin babban alkalin kotun kolin Najeriya daga shekarar1929 zuwa 1946.

Kuruciya 

Kingdon, wanda aka haifa a watan Nuwamba 1883, ɗa ne ga Walter Kingdon. Ya yi karatu a Eastbourne College, kuma a St John's College, Cambridge .

Aiki 
Kingdon ya yi aiki da Ma’aikatar Mulki a Gambiya a matsayin Sufeto na Makarantu da Mataimakin Shari’a, sannan ya kasance memba a Majalisar Dokokin kasar. Ya kasance babban lauya na Uganda, kuma an nada shi a shekarar 1918 a matsayin babban mai shari'a na Gold Coast. Ya kasance Knight Bachelor.

An nada Kingdon ne a matsayin shugaban hukumar da za ta binciki tashe-tashen hankulan da aka yi a yankunan Calabar da Owerri a 1929 da 1930 wanda ya yi sanadiyyar mutuwar mutane 55.  Rahoton na hukumar ya nuna cewa rashin isassun horon ‘yan sanda da kuma hana binciken laifukan da ba su dace ba ya taimaka wajen karya dokokin kasar.

Alkalanci
Ya kasance Alkalin Alkalai mafi dadewa a Najeriya. Ya yi aiki a karkashin gwamnoni hudu na mulkin mallaka: Graeme Thomson, Donald Cameron, Bernard Bourdillon da Arthur Richards. Ya kuma yi aiki a matsayin Babban Lauyan Najeriya, daga 1919 zuwa 1925, kuma ya shirya tare da tsara litattafai masu yawa game da dokokin Afirka ta Yamma.

Al'amurra 
Donald Kingdon ya auri Kathleen Moody, wacce diya ce ga dan kasuwa Charles Edmund Moody,  kuma ita ce jikar Manjo-Janar Richard Clement Moody (wanda ya kafa British Columbia) da Mary Hawks na daular Hawks.

Kingdon da Kathleen Moody suna da 'ya'ya 3:

 1. Joan Campbell Kingdon (1915 - 1941). Ta auri Hamish Forsyth wanda ya mutu a cikin Blitz . An kashe Joan, a 1941, ta hanyar fashewar bam, yayin da yake tuka motar asibiti.
 2. Richard Donald Kingdon (1917 - 1952). Ya auri Leslie Eve Donnell. Ya mutu a lokacin da yake tashi zuwa LeMons, a matsayin matukin jirgi, lokacin da injinansa suka gaza, kuma yayi hatsari a kan hanyoyin Turai, inda ya ba da jaket din rayuwarsa ga fasinja na jirgin.
 3. Elizabeth Kingdon

Littattafai 

 The Laws of Ashanti; Containing the Ordinances of Ashanti, and the Orders, Proclamations, Rules, Regulations and Bye-laws made thereunder, in force on the 31st Day of December 1919 (1920)
 The Laws of the Gambia in force on the 1st Day of January 1955 (1950)
 The Laws of the Federation of Nigeria and Lagos : in force on the 1st Day of June 1958 (Revised edition, 1959)

Manazarta 

Tsaffin Daliban John's Coll
Alkalin alkalan Najeriya
Alkalin Alkalai a lokacin turawa mulkin mallaka
Haihuwan 1883
Mutuwar 1961