{{Short description|English judge}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}'''Sir Richard William Ground''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR-cats|OBE}} (17 December 1949 – 22 February 2014)<ref Name=News24>[http://www.newsuk24.com/news/former-chief-justice-sir-richard-ground-dies News24] "Former Chief Justice Sir Richard Ground dies", 23 February</ref> was an English judge in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda.

==Biography== Ground was born in Stamford, England in 1949 and studied at Lincoln College, Oxford, Inns of Court School of Law.<ref name="royalgazette.com">{{Cite web |url=http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20140224/NEWS/140229876 |title=Former Chief Justice Sir Richard Ground dies &#124; the Royal Gazette:Bermuda News |access-date=24 February 2014|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924132952/http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20140224/NEWS/140229876 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1975. He was a media lawyer in London,<ref name="royalgazette.com"/> before going to the Cayman Islands to serve as Crown Counsel from 1983 to 1987 and then as Attorney General of the Cayman Islands from 1987 to 1992.<ref>[http://www.judicial.ky/wp-content/uploads/publications/press-releases/2013-04-08-PressReleaseFinal-NewJudges-withphoto-.pdf Press Release], judicial.ky. Accessed 18 January 2023.</ref>

He was Chief Justice of the Turks and Caicos Islands from 1998 to 2004, and Chief Justice of Bermuda from 2004 to 2012.<ref name=TEL>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/bermuda/1449945/Bermuda-in-row-over-new-judge.html|title=Bermuda in row over new judge|work=The Telegraph|date=20 December 2003|accessdate=23 February 2014}}</ref><ref name=KY>{{cite web|url=http://www.judicial.ky/wp-content/uploads/publications/press-releases/2013-04-08-PressReleaseFinal-NewJudges-withphoto-.pdf|title= Press Release: New Justice for Court of Appeal|work=The Cayman Islands Judicial Administration|date=8 April 2013|accessdate=23 February 2014}}</ref><ref name=RG>{{cite web|url=http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20140223/NEWS/140229876|title=Former Chief Justice Sir Richard Ground dies|work=The Royal Gazette|date=23 February 2014|accessdate=23 February 2014}}</ref> Ground retired as Chief Justice in 2012 and was succeeded by Ian Kawaley.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20120404/NEWS/704049897 |title=Bermuda-born Chief Justice takes the reins &#124; the Royal Gazette: Bermuda News |access-date=24 February 2014 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924132008/http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20120404/NEWS/704049897 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Personal life and death==

He died on 22 February 2014 in Grindleford, Derbyshire,<ref Name=News24/> survived by his widow, Dace McCoy Ground, whom he married in 1986.<ref name="royalgazette.com"/>

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==External links== *[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-60761-1980862 Sir Richard William Ground, 2012 Knighthood approval] in The Gazette

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