Riccardo Farrugia

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Dr.Riccardo Farrugia born at Valletta on 27 January 1918 was best known as a Nationalist Party General Secretary as well as a judge.

He was educated at the Lyceum and the Royal University of Malta. He graduated BA in 1939 and LL.D at 1943.

A lawyer by profession, between 1947 and 1950 Farrugia worked for the Partit Nazzjonalista serving as General Secretary. He was on the ballot for four general elections between 1947 and 1951. Although we was never personally elected, his role within the party was instrumental in getting Nerik Mizzi elected Prime Minister in 1950.

He remained active in politics throughout the 1960s mainly as Deputy Leader of the right-wing Democratic Nationalist Party (DNP) led by Herbert Ganado. He unsuccessfully contested the 1962 and 1966 elections DNP.

Aside from politics Farrugia served as Judge in the Maltese Law Courts for a period of three years. He was also appointed Mid Med Bank chairman for a number of years. He also undertook the very tedious but very necessary chore of drawing up an analytical index of the titles of the Laws of Malta.

Riccardo Farrugia was married to Carmen and was the father of three children, Tonio, Marquita and Anouchka.

He died on 27 September 2006 at the age of 88.