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*The Orders and Medals awarded to Sir Ivo Rigby, Chief Justice of Hong Kong, and formerly a government lawyer and judge in various British colonies and protectorates including Gambia, Palestine, Nyasaland, Malaya and Brunei. During his tenure in Hong Kong he famously served as Judge during the infamous 'Three Wolves' kidnap, extortion and murder case of 1962, comprising:Brunei, The Most Blessed Order of Loyalty to the State of Brunei, type 1 (1959-84) Second Class set of insignia (Dato Stia Negara Brunei), by Spink in Son, in silver-gilt and enamels, width 60mm and breast star, in silver, with gilt and enamelled centre, 85 mm, in original case of issue with neck ribbon and lapel rosette; General Service Medal, 1918-1962, 2 clasps, Palestine, Palestine 1945-48 (I.C.C. Rigby); Coronation Medal, 1953; the latter pair swing mounted on bar with reverse pin, cased orders good extremely fine, centre very slightly loose on breast star, pair lightly polished good very fine (4). Sir Ivo Charles Clayton Rigby was born 2 June 1911 in Yarmouth, Norfolk, and was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford. He served in the Territorial Army in England between 1931 and 1935 with the 13th London Regiment and 5th Battalion Norfolks, during which time he read for the bar at the Inner Temple in London and was called in 1932, practicing in London, Norwich and the South East until 1935, in which year he was appointed Police Magistrate in Bathurst, Gambia. In 1941 he was appointed to the Crown Counsel in Palestine, and between 1945 and 1948 he served as President of the District Court of Palestine, as well as at Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa. During this time he again volunteered for military service, serving in the Palestine Volunteer Defence Force between 1941 and late 1943. Leaving the Near East, he took up the position of Assistant Judge in Nyasaland (now Malawi) between 1948 and 1954, before transferring to Malaya where he became President of the Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur, and then later Puisne Judge in Penang. In 1961 he was appointed Senior Puisne Judge in Hong Kong (which under and inter-governmental agreement also shared its High Court judges with Brunei), during which time he served as Acting Chief Justice of several occasions. It was during this time that in 1962 he presided as Acting Chief Justice during the infamous 'The Strange Case of the Three Wolves' murder and kidnap trials in Hong Kong, the three being prosecuted for crimes which had taken place between 1959 and 1961. This famous case is still well-remembered today owing to the popular 1989 film 'Sentenced to Hang' (or 'The Strange Case of the Three Wolves [in Chinese]) by Taylor Wong, the story of which was broadly based upon this case. Upon the discovery of a body at a hillside near Repulse Bay, the three 'wolves' (so-called for wearing wolf masks for anonymity): Maguang Can, Li Wei and Ni Bingjian were apprehended, tried and found guilty of murder. The three culprits were thus to become the last people to receive the death penalty and be hung for murder in Hong Kong under British rule in November 1962. Rigby was knighted on 13 June 1964, and in 1970 he was appointed as Chief Justice, replacing Sir Michael Hogan. A keen fan of horseracing, he owned several notable thoroughbreds in Hong Kong including 'Mabrouk' and 'Inshallah'. He retired to England in 1973, and died on 19 April 1987 in Brunei at the age of 75. (£1000-1500)