Background
SPEED, E. A. was born on March 11, 1869. 2nds. of R. H. Speed, Solicitor, Nottingham.
SPEED, E. A. was born on March 11, 1869. 2nds. of R. H. Speed, Solicitor, Nottingham.
Rugby; Trinity College Cambridge. Master of Arts; Bachelor of Laws.
Called to Bar, Inner Temple, 1893. A District Commissioner of Gold Coast Colony, 1899. Attorney General of Lagos, 1900, and of Southern Nigeria, 1906.
Several times Acting Chief Justice, Colonial Secretary, and Deputy Governor of Lagos, and Acting C. J. of South. Nigeria.
Chief Justice of Northern Nigeria since 1908.
Spouse 1901, Ada Frances,daughter of late 1894 Reverend William Ross, sometime Chaplain of the Black WTatch and Rector of Haddington.