Geoffrey Bing was born in County Down and was educated in Tonbridge, Oxford University and Princeton University. He was a lawyer, and served in Gibraltar, Ghana and Nigeria. During the war he was a signals officer, and afterwards he became a Labour member of parliament for Hornchurch. From 1957 to 1961 he was Attorney-General in Ghana under President Nkrumah. He was author of the best-selling John Bull's Other Island and of Reap the Whirlwind. He became a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1960.

Born:	24 July 1909
Died:	24 April 1977