Sir Anthony Joseph Mamo

Identity area

Type of entity

Person

Authorized form of name

Sir Anthony Joseph Mamo

Parallel form(s) of name

Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

Other form(s) of name

  • Mamo, Sir Anthony Joseph
  • Anthony Mamo
  • A.J. Mamo
  • Sir Anthony Mamo

Identifiers for corporate bodies

Description area

Dates of existence

1909-01-08/2008-05-01

History

Anthony J. Mamo was born in Birkirkara on the 8 January 1909 from Joseph Mamo and Carla Brincat. Educated at the Archibishop’s Seminary and later at the Royal University of Malta where, in 1931, he graduated as Bachelor of Arts (B.A) and in 1934, as Doctor of Laws (LL.D). As the first student in the course he was awarded the Government "Travelling Scholarship" and the "Bugeja Scholarship". He had short courses at London University and University of Perugia.
In October 1936 he was appointed member of the Commission which, under the chairmanship of Judge Harding, was entrusted with the task of preparing a Revised Edition of all the Laws of Malta.
During the Second World War he gave his services for refugee work and general service.
In 1942 Dr Mamo entered the Attorney-General's Office as one of the Crown Counsel. Here he occupied in succession all the grades (1950-52 – Senior Crow Counsel), until he himself became Attorney-General in 1955.
In the same period, from 1943 to 1957 he became Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Malta where for many here he was member of the Senate and President of the University Council.
Anthony Mamo served as chief legal adviser under 4 Prime Ministers: Sir Paul Boffa, Dr Enrico Mizzi, Dr Gorg Borg Olivier, Dominic Mintoff. and he accompanied all Ministerial delegations for discussions and negotiations with the British Government.
From 1957 to 1971 he was appointed as Chief Justice and president of the Court Appeal.
Towards the end of June 1962, Acting Governor pending the arrival of the new British governor, Sir Maurice Dorman.
In 1964 he was the First President of the Constitutional Court and in 1967 the First President of the Court of Criminal Appeals.
From 1971 to 1974, he was appointed as the first Maltese Governor-General.
When Malta was proclaim a Republic in 1974, he was elected by the Parliament, President of Malta (13th December1974 - 26th December 1976).

Honours:
1955 – Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Commonwealth Honours).
1957 – Honorary Queen’s Counsel (Commonwealth Honours).
1960 - Knight Bachelor
1962 – Knight of Grace of the Venerable Order of St John.
06 April 1990 – Companion of Honour of the National Order of Merit by right as a former President of Malta.

Places

Malta (1909-2008)

Legal status

Functions, occupations and activities

Functions:
Crown Counsel, Senior Crow Counsel, Attorney-General
Chief Legal Advise
Chief Justice and president of the Court Appeal
First President of the Constitutional Court
First President of the Court of Criminal Appeals
Governor-General
President of Malta
University Functions:
Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Malta
Senate and President of the University Council

Mandates/sources of authority

Internal structures/genealogy

Joseph Mamo, father, and Carla Brincat, mother. Anthony Mamo was married to Lady Margaret (née Agius) from 1939 until her death in 2002. They had three children; Josephine (married to Victor E. Tortell), Monica (married to George Pisani) and John (married to Tessa née' Scicluna).

General context

Relationships area

Related entity

Borg Olivier, George, 1911-1980 (1911-07-05/1980-10-29)

Identifier of the related entity

MT-NAM-GBO

Category of the relationship

hierarchical

Type of relationship

Borg Olivier, George, 1911-1980

is the superior of

Sir Anthony Joseph Mamo

Dates of the relationship

1950 - 1955

Description of relationship

Related entity

Sir Paul Boffa (1890-06-30/1962-07-06)

Identifier of the related entity

MT-NAM-PB

Category of the relationship

hierarchical

Type of relationship

Sir Paul Boffa

is the superior of

Sir Anthony Joseph Mamo

Dates of the relationship

1947 - 1950

Description of relationship

Access points area

Subject access points

Place access points

Occupations

Control area

Authority record identifier

MT-NAM-AJM

Institution identifier

MT NAM

Rules and/or conventions used

  • ISAAR (CPF) – International Standard Archival Authority Record For Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families, Second Edition, Canberra, Australia, 27-30 October 2003;
  • ISO 8601 - Data elements and interchange formats –Information interchange—Representation of dates and times, 2nd ed., Geneva: International Standards Organization, 2000.
  • ISO 3166 - Codes for the representation of names of countries, Geneva: International Standards Organization, 1997.
  • ISO 639-2 - Codes for the representation of names of languages - Part 2: Alpha-3 Code, Geneva: International Standards Organization, 1998.
  • ISO 15924 - Codes for the representation of names of scripts, Geneva: International Standards Organization, 2001.

Status

Draft

Level of detail

Partial

Dates of creation, revision and deletion

Creation 2020-05-13); revised

Language(s)

  • Ingliż

Script(s)

  • Latin

Sources

Michael J. Schiavone, Dictionary of Maltese Biographies, Vol II G-Z, Pubblikazzjonijiet Indipendenza PIN, 2009.
Sir Anthony J. Mamo, President of Malta (1974 – 1976), https://www.gov.mt/en/Government/Government%20of%20Malta/Presidents%20of%20Malta/Pages/Sir-Anthony-J-Mamo.aspx
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