Sir Richard William Ground, OBE (2 May 1949 – 22 February 2014) [1] was an English judge in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda.
Ground was born in Stamford, England in 1949 and studied at Lincoln College, Oxford, Inns of Court School of Law. [2] He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1975. He was a media lawyer in London, [2] before going to the Cayman Islands to serve as Crown Counsel from 1983 to 1987 and then as Attorney General of the Cayman Islands from 1987 to 1992. [3]
He was Chief Justice of the Turks and Caicos Islands from 1998 to 2004, and Chief Justice of Bermuda from 2004 to 2012. [4] [5] [6] Ground retired as Chief Justice in 2012 and was succeeded by Ian Kawaley. [7]
He died on 22 February 2014 in Grindleford, Derbyshire, [1] survived by his widow, Dace McCoy Ground, whom he married in 1986. [2]