Claim: Roger Sewell Bacon, a British judge who was Chief Justice of Gibraltar (1946–55) and a Justice of Appeal on the East African Court of Appeal (1955–57) who was called to the bar in 1923, had been appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1943.
Evidence: Sir Roger Sewell Bacon, MBE (23 January 1895 – 17 February 1962) was a British judge who was Chief Justice of Gibraltar (1946–55) and a Justice of Appeal on the East African Court of Appeal (1955–57). Called to the bar in 1923, he remained in law for the rest of his professional life. Bacon had been appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1943, and was made a Knight Bachelor in 1958, the year after he retired from the East African Court of Appeal.