Background
He was born in New Amsterdam, Berbice, the son of Edward Luckhoo, a solicitor of Indian extraction, and educated at Queen"s College, Guyana and Street Catherine"s College, Oxford, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree.
He was born in New Amsterdam, Berbice, the son of Edward Luckhoo, a solicitor of Indian extraction, and educated at Queen"s College, Guyana and Street Catherine"s College, Oxford, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree.
He studied law at the Middle Temple, where he was called to the bar in 1931.
Admitted to practice in 1936, he was made Queen's Counsel in 1965. He was the brother of lawyer and diplomat Sir Lionel Luckhoo, who was the British High Commissioner for Guyana and Barbados. He was appointed a Justice of Appeal in 1966 and Chancellor of the Judiciary in October 1969.
As Chancellor of the Judiciary from 1969 to 1976 he was President of the Court of Appeal and briefly became the last Governor-General in 1969, and then Acting President when Guyana became a Republic on 23 February 1970.
However he is not officially mentioned in lists of Presidents of Guyana. Edward Luckhoo was married to Maureen Moxlow of Batley, West Yorkshire.
Sir Edward died on 3 March 1998, aged 85, and is buried in Ossett. Lady Luckhoo still resides in the town.