Paul Lawrence Adderley (August 15, 1928 – September 19, 2012"The Late Honourable Paul L. Adderley"
, The Bahamas High Commission, London.) was a Bahamian politician and lawyer. He was the longest serving Attorney General of the 20th century, holding the post for 17 years.

Career

Adderley was originally a member of the

Progressive Liberal Party The Progressive Liberal Party (abbreviated PLP) is a populist and social liberal party in the Bahamas. Philip Davis is the leader of the party. History The PLP was founded in 1953 by William Cartwright, Cyril Stevenson, and Henry Milton Tay ...

(PLP) under

Lynden Oscar Pindling Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling, NH, KCMG, PC, JP (22 March 193026 August 2000) was a Bahamian politician who is regarded as the "Father of the Nation" of the Bahamas, having led it to majority rule on 10 January 1967 and to independence on 10 Ju ...

. However, Adderley left the PLP in 1965 and established the National Development Party (NDP) political party. He returned to the PLP shortly before the Bahamas achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1973. On 1 March 1973, he was appointed Minister of External Affairs and on July 10, 1973 became the country's first and, ultimately, longest-servingMacushla Pinder
"AG Office Officially Named Paul Adderley – Longest Serving AG Honoured"
''The Bahama Journal'', June 30, 2014. Attorney-General. Adderley served as the

Minister of Finance A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation. A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", " ...

from 1990 to 1992. Adderley served as acting

Governor-General of the Bahamas The governor-general of the Bahamas is the vice-regal representative of the Bahamian monarch, currently King Charles III, in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The governor-general is appointed by the monarch on the recommendation of the prime ...

from December 1, 2005 until February 1, 2006. Adderley retired from politics, remaining an active attorney as of 2010. In September 2010, he appeared in the documentary film ''On the Wings of Men'', about Lynden Oscar Pindling by Bahamian filmmaker Calvin Harris.

Death and legacy

Adderley died on September 19, 2012, aged 84, and was given a state funeral on September 28. At a ceremony on June 27, 2014, the building housing the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) and the Ministry of Legal Affairs was named in honour of Paul L. Adderley.Lindsay Thompson
"Naming and Opening of Paul L Adderley Building dubbed Red Letter Day"
Bahamas Information Services, June 27, 2014.

References

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