Nicholas Joseph Orville Liverpool (9 September 1934 – 1 June 2015) was a politician and jurist from

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who served as the sixth President of Dominica from 2 October 2003 to 17 September 2012.

Biography

In 1957, Liverpool entered the

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and obtained an LL.B (Hons.) degree in 1960. He was called to the bar at

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in 1961. He received a Ph.D degree from

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in 1965. After returning to the Caribbean, he spent 18 years as a law lecturer at the

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in Barbados and in 1992 became dean of its law school. He served as a regional judge and then an appeal court judge in several countries in the Caribbean including

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and

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. He also served as a high court judge in

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and

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and served on a number of tribunals and commissions for legal reform. In 2002 he was chairman of the constitutional review commission for Grenada. The

awarded him a degree of Doctor of Laws in July 2011. Liverpool became Ambassador to the United States in March 1998, serving in that capacity until 2001. Nicholas J O Liverpool with Obamas

In the same year as elected president, Liverpool was awarded the Dominica Award of Honour. Between 2002 and 2003 he also served as a Member of the UNESCO governing board. In July 2008 he agreed to serve a second term as president upon the expiration of his first term, following a joint nomination by

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and Opposition Leader Earl Williams. Nicholas Liverpool died on 1 June 2015 in

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, Florida, where he was receiving medical treatment. He was 80 years old.

National honours

* Dominica Award of Honour

Foreign honours

* ** Two Sicilian Royal Family: Knight Grand Cross of the Two Sicilian Royal Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George, Special ClassIn 2012 Liverpool was awarded and invested by HRH The Duke of Castro as a Knight Grand Cross with Gold Star of the

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in recognition to his contribution to law and Catholic Life and served from 2014 as Vice Delegate for Dominica for the Order.

References

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External links

Official site of the President's Office, Commonwealth of Dominica
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