ERROR RG P5 15.12.1995 Mr. Cecil Durham is not nor was he ever connected with Perington Acres real estate as was reported in a story published Tuesday.

Charles Vaucrosson's legal career spanned three decades but his fraud trial lasted three weeks and in the end he was convicted of stealing close to $400,000 from the beneficiaries of the late Percy Ball's trust account.

Yesterday he was remanded in custody yesterday exactly 32 years after being called to the Bermuda Bar on December 12, 1963.

The son of Mr. Arnold R. Vaucrosson, a lawyer and Member of Colonial Parliament who came to Bermuda from Trinidad and set up a law firm here, the younger Vaucrosson was born in 1934 and was educated at Mrs. Millie Neverson's school, Northlands and Berkeley Institute.

As the late Sir Edward Richards said when Vaucrosson was called to the Bar, the law was in the young barrister's blood -- his mother's brother was once Chief Justice of British Honduras and was the assistant acting Chief Justice of British Guiana when he retired.

Both his daughter Norma Neilson and his daughter-in-law Nita Grewall are lawyers with the Attorney General's Chambers.

Vaucrosson also went to school in his father's native Trinidad as well as at Pickering College in Canada when he was 14 and the University of Western Ontario where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree at 23.

While in Canada, Vaucrosson made up his mind never to return to his segregated homeland, so he opted for a degree that would lead him to a career in medical science -- a field where there were no openings for blacks in Bermuda.

However, during the four years that it took him to earn his bachelor's degree, he met a young nurse called Margaret McDonnell who hailed from London, Ontario, and she wanted to move and settle in Bermuda.

Around the same time, Bermuda's segregation laws were being challenged and changed which gave the young Bermudian hope for a better life.

At his mother's prompting to return, Vaucrosson married Margaret in 1958 and took up the study of law with the intention of returning to Bermuda as a barrister.

Vaucrosson, 23, with his freshly minted Bachelor of Science degree and a young wife, set off for England and one of the four Gray's Inns of Court in London.

The couple worked to support their young family and pay his way through school.

During the day he went to school but at night he worked as a switch board operator for 9 pounds, 17 shillings and six pence a week but he also sold vacuum cleaners and magazines while his wife worked as a nurse.

To earn extra money, the Vaucrossons decided to sub-let one of the two bedrooms in their apartment to another student.

After passing the Bar, Vaucrosson worked in London for one year to get practical experience before returning to Bermuda at the age of 28, the father of three children and Margaret was expecting their fourth.

He opened his legal practice on December 15, 1963 in a little back office on Church Street but within 18 months he had to move to a bigger office with four rooms.

Within time other lawyers joined his practice so that by 1969 his was the third largest firm in Bermuda with four full time lawyers on his staff.

In the early 1990s, Vaucrosson's firm employed ten lawyers including Mr.

Edward King, Mr. Julian Hall, Mr. Delroy Duncan, Ms Patricia Harvey and Mr.

Perry Trott. Ms Harvey was part of his defence team in his Supreme Court trial.

During his trial it emerged that Mr. Hall, Mr. Duncan and others were plotting to take the litigation side of his practice away leaving him with the conveyancing businesses.

But Mr. King, now a Magistrate, testified at the trial that he was not willing to be a party to that because he had a good relationship with Vaucrosson and looked up to him.

Vaucrosson's legal success notwithstanding, his vaunting ambition led him into business ventures that included the Kirkland Company which was a holding company for a host of other businesses handling real estate, construction, savings and loans, a hotel and investments.

He even set up the Bermuda National Bank in the early 1960s with Mr. Montague Sheppard, although the bank's assets were later sold to the Bank of Butterfield.

More recently his other business ventures have included Amulion Investments, a firm that dealt in mortgages and investments.

He was also involved in a joint real estate venture called Perington Acres with former Bank of Bermuda executive Arnold Todd Jr., Milton Samuel Woods, Varnel Robert Curtis and Cecil Oliver Durham, who have since been charged in other matters before the courts.

Vaucrosson and Mr. Sheppard teamed up again and with others, sat on the board of directors for Capital Broadcasting Company (ZFB). He was president of the board during the 1970s before the company was sold to Bermuda Broadcasting Company in 1982.

A keen bridge player, Vaucrosson has represented Bermuda in World Bridge tournaments.

He is also a past President of the Hamilton Lions Club, Pembroke Hamilton Club, the Bermuda Bar Association and Bermuda Business Association. He was also an acting Magistrate in 1965 and chairman of the hospitals board from 1982-83.