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Instructions · What links here · Henry Bale (talk: + · bio) · (log) · Copyvios report · reFill · Citation Bot · (Search: Google, Wikipedia) · Submitted 10 days ago by Marcellus38 (talk: D · +) · Last edited 9 days ago by Ibjaja055

Comment: Can you rearrange the information into different sections? it will look more like a Wikipedia article that way. Ibjaja055 (talk) 09:31, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

Sir Henry Bale KCMG (1854 – 1910) was a former Chief Justice of the Colony of Natal.^[1]^: 137

Henry Bale was born in Pietermaritzburg on January 12, 1854.

The son of the former mayor of Pietermaritzburg, WE Bale^[1]^: 138 and Charlotte Drew Bale, the young Henry was educated at the old Pietermaritzburg High School (now Maritzburg College), where he was dux in 1870. He remined a lifelong supporter of his Alma Mater, and was appointed the founding president of its alumni association - the Maritzburg College Old Boys' Association - on January 11 1897.^[1]^: 146

Having completed his high schooling at Exeter Grammar School in England, Bale obtained his legal training also in the United Kingdom. He from 1875 practiced as an advocate at the Pietermaritzburg bar.^[2]^: 19

From 1893 to 1901, he represented Pietermaritzburg in the Natal Legislative Assembly.

He was appointed Attorney-General and Minister of Education (1897–1901), Chief Justice of Natal in 1901, and Administrator of the Government in 1904.^[2]^: 19

Sir Henry Bale died on December 1, 1910.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Haw, Simon (1988). For Hearth and Home : the Story of Maritzburg College, 1863-1988 (1st ed.). Pietermaritzburg: M.C. Publications. ISBN 9780620130868. OCLC 38771242. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
^ ^a ^b Who's Who in Natal, 1906. 1906.

[HearthandHome-1] Haw, Simon (1988). For Hearth and Home : the Story of Maritzburg College, 1863-1988 (1st ed.). Pietermaritzburg: M.C. Publications. ISBN 9780620130868. OCLC 38771242. Retrieved 8 December 2024.

[WhosWhoinNatal-2] Who's Who in Natal, 1906. 1906.

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