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Nationality
  
South African

Succeeded by
  
Henry Alan Fagan

Name
  
Albert der

Appointed by
  
Sir Patrick Duncan

Role
  
Justice


Albert van der Sandt Centlivres

Died
  
September 19, 1966, Cape Province


Appointed by
  
Appointed by
  
The Earl of Clarendon

Albert van der Sandt Centlivres (13 January 1887–19 September 1966) was the Chief Justice of South Africa from 1950 to 1957.

Albert van der Sandt Centlivres Albert van der Sandt Centlivres Biography Judge South Africa

Born in Cape Town, Centlivres studied Classics at the South African College (now the University of Cape Town) and at Law at New College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He was called to the bar by the Middle Temple in 1910 and took silk in 1927. In 1935 he was appointed a judge of the Cape Provincial Division, and in 1939 he became a Judge of Appeal in the Appellate Division, South Africa's highest court.

Centlivres was Chancellor of the University of Cape Town from 1950 until his death in 1966. The Centlivres Building on the university's upper campus is named after him.

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Albert van der Sandt Centlivres Wikipedia


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