The Coussey Committee was established on 14 March 1949, after the 1948 Accra riots, to draft a constitution towards self-rule for the country Gold Coast.[1] The committee was chaired by Sir Henley Coussey and published their report on 7 November 1949.[2]
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The CousseyCommittee was established on 14 March 1949, after the 1948 Accra riots, to draft a constitution towards self-rule for the country Gold Coast...
the Gothic style. Coussey the origins of the Coussey family. Sir James Henley Coussey, who chaired the Coussey Constitutional Committee set up in December...
Sir James Henley Coussey KBE QC (1891 – 6 June 1958) was a jurist in Gold Coast (British colony). He was a Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of the Gold...
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Accra Riots and unrest (which led to the arrest of the Big Six), the CousseyCommittee was commissioned by the United Kingdom government. Its report led...
The constitution of 1 January 1951 resulted from the report of the CousseyCommittee, created because of disturbances in Accra and other cities in 1948...
in the 1940s, resulting in the call for more autonomy in 1948. The CousseyCommittee was formed in response to the riots of Acrra in 1948, in order to...
served as the first secretary of the group. He was a member of the CousseyCommittee on constitutional reform from 1948 to 1949. He once served as a general...
and approving bodies between 1949 and 1973. He was a member of the CousseyCommittee on Constitutional Reforms. In 1969, he was the Deputy Speaker of the...
of the National Congress of British West Africa, and member of the CousseyCommittee for constitutional change. He married Lilly Anna Cleanand, daughter...
Nigeria, The Gambia and Sierra Leone. After the 1948 Accra riots, the CousseyCommittee incorporate the setting up of the Public Services Commission to train...
temporary stay in Paris. There he met and had a romance with Anne Marie Coussey, a British-educated African from a well-to-do Gold Coast family; they subsequently...
the youth in the politics of the Colony. He proposed amendment to the Coussey Constitution to reduce the voting age from 25 to 21. He was the Ministerial...
with whom he had two children and four grandchildren. He married Mary Coussey in 1994, and had two stepchildren. He died on 21 August 2015 at the age...
of Trinidad and Tobago. On 14 January 1928, Wooding married Anne Marie Coussey, a British-educated African from a well-to-do Gold Coast family. She had...
Bar on 10 April 1913, along with Sir James Henley Coussey who later chaired the Constitutional Committee set up in December 1949 to draw up a new Constitution...
court could be appealed with leave to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Sir James Henley Coussey was appointed President of the court in 1955. Jubilee...
Chairman of the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games in Melbourne, State of Victoria, since 1951. Sir James Henley Coussey, President, West African...
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Couper, Millennium Commissioner. For services to Science. Mary Winifred Coussey, Chair, Advisory Board for Naturalisation and Integration and lately Immigration...
Industry. Wendy Cope, Poet. For services to Literature. James Romaine Hendry Coussey, Senior Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service. Professor Brian Edward Cox...
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