Percy McElwaine
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Sir Percy Alexander McElwaine (1884-1969) was born on the 21st of September 1884 in Roscommon, Ireland.
In 1927 he was appointed Attorney General of Fiji by the governor Sir Eyre Hutson, holding the position until 1931, later became the Chief Justice of the peace in Singapore. During WW2 he was imprisoned for 3 years in Changi Prison, where he wrote a diary which is now kept at the National War Museum in London.
He died on 19th September 1969 in Devon, at the age of 82.
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