Ambrose McGonigal
Sir Ambrose Joseph McGonigal, KBE, MC (Special Air Service Regiment),[1] QC (1917–1979) was educated at Clongowes Wood College and Queen's University Belfast.[2]
He served with distinction in the British Army during the Second World War and was awarded the MC in 1944.[3] In 1948 he was called to the Northern Ireland Bar and became a High Court judge on 8 March 1968. In 1975 McGonigal was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal. He was knighted on 1 July 1975. He died in 1979, aged 62.
Justice McGonigal is mentioned in Tony Geraghty's The Irish War: the hidden conflict between the IRA and British Intelligence[4] as having been "forced to carry a gun under his robe" due to terrorism in Northern Ireland, which would claim the lives of at least five judges or justices in Northern Ireland.
References
- ↑ London Gazette notice of MC award
- ↑ Biodata
- ↑ Special Forces Roll of Honour
- ↑ The Irish War: the hidden conflict between the IRA and British Intelligence by Tony Geraghty; London: Harper Collins. ISBN 0-8018-6456-9, p. 113