Sir John Clarke MacDermott, KC, PC, who died 13 December, 2022, aged 97, was a Northern Irish barrister and judge.
He was born 9 May, 1927, son of John Clarke MacDermott, Baron MacDermott, MC, PC, PC (NI) (1896-1979) a Northern Irish politician and lawyer who was Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland from 1951 to 1971, and a life peer, by his wife the former Louise Palmer Johnston, oldest daughter of the Rev. J. C. Johnston, DD.
He was educated at Campbell College, Belfast, Trinity Hall, Cambridge (BA), and Queen's University Belfast.
MacDermott was called to English Bar by the Inner Temple and the Bar of Northern Ireland in 1949 and became a Northern Irish Queen's Counsel in 1964. He was appointed a Justice of the High Court of Northern Ireland in 1973. In 1987, he was made a Lord Justice of Appeal, and was knighted and sworn of the Privy Council. He retired from the bench in 1998.
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