Richard Ground

Sir Richard William Ground, OBE (17 December 1949 – 22 February 2014)^[1] was an English judge in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda.

Ground was born in Stamford, England in 1949 and studied at Lincoln College, Oxford, Inns of Court School of Law.^[2] He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1975. He was a media lawyer in London,^[2] before going to the Cayman Islands to serve as Crown Counsel from 1983 to 1987 and then as Attorney General of the Cayman Islands from 1987 to 1992.^[3]

He was Chief Justice of the Turks and Caicos Islands from 1998 to 2004, and Chief Justice of Bermuda from 2004 to 2012.^[4][5][6] Ground retired as Chief Justice in 2012 and was succeeded by Ian Kawaley.^[7]

He died on 22 February 2014 in Grindleford, Derbyshire,^[1] survived by his widow, Dace McCoy Ground, whom he married in 1986.^[2]

• Sir Richard William Ground, 2012 Knighthood approval in The Gazette

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