Herbert Stronge
Sir Herbert Cecil Stronge, KC (3 January 1875 – 22 August 1963) was an Anglo-Irish barrister and British colonial judge.
Life and career
[edit]The elder son of S. E. Stronge, MA, ISO, and Minnie L. Stronge, Herbert Stronge was educated at the Falmouth School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he took a BA and was Prizeman in Classics and English Literature.
He was called to the Irish Bar in 1900 and joined the North-East Circuit in 1901, practising in Belfast; he eventually became a King's Counsel. He was appointed as a stipendiary magistrate in the Bahamas in 1911, and acted as Attorney-General of the Bahamas in 1914 and 1915. From 1917[1] to 1925 he was Chief Justice of the Tonga Protectorate. From 1925 to 1931 he was Chief Justice of the Leeward Islands. From 1931[2] until his retirement in 1938 he was Chief Justice of Cyprus. He was knighted in 1930. He died in Durban, South Africa in 1963.
References
[edit]- ^ Elizabeth Wood-Ellem (2001). Queen Sālote of Tonga: The Story of an Era, 1900-65. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. p. 74.
- ^ "STRONGE APPOINTED CHIEF JUSTICE OF CYPRUS". The Royal Gazette. Vol. 16, no. 11. 13 January 1931. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
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