Full Biography
Sir Sydney Kentridge was born on 5 November 1922. Sir Sydney Kentridge is a South African-born barrister, judge, and English and Welsh Bar member. From the 1940s until his retirement in 2013, he practiced law in South Africa and the United Kingdom. In South Africa, he was a key figure in several of the most notable political trials of the apartheid era, including Nelson Mandela’s treason trial and the inquest into Steve Biko’s death in 1978. Felicia Kentridge, Kentridge’s wife, was a prominent anti-apartheid lawyer.
Height and weight
Sir Sydney Kentridge’s height and weight are unknown
Nationality & Ethnicity
Sir Sydney Kentridge is a citizen of South Africa who is of black accent
Education
Sydney Kentridge attended Johannesburg’s King Edward VII School before attending the University of Witwatersrand. Sir Sydney Kentridge graduated in 1942 and served in the South African Army as an intelligence officer in East Africa and Italy during WWII. Following the war, he entered Exeter College, Oxford, on an ex-serviceman’s grant, and graduated with a first-class BA in Jurisprudence in 1948.
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Sir Sydney Kentridge married Felicia Geffen, a lawyer, and anti-apartheid activist who helped found the South African Legal Resources Centre (LRC) in 1952; Kentridge was a founding trustee of the LRC.
Sir Sydney Kentridge has four daughters, nine grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren and has lived in Maida Vale, London, since the 1990s. William Kentridge, a South African artist, and filmmaker, is Kentridge’s eldest son.
