Chief Justice of the Leeward Islands

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The Chief Justice of the Leeward Islands headed the Supreme Court of the Leeward Islands.

The British Leeward Islands was a British colony existing between 1833 and 1960, and consisting of Antigua, Barbuda, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla and Dominica (to 1940). Prior to 1871, when the Supreme Court was established, the individual islands had their own courts.

In 1939 the Windward and Leeward Islands Supreme Court and the Windward and Leeward Islands Court of Appeal were established, which was replaced in 1967 by the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court which provides both functions.

Antigua

1706– Samuel Watkins

?–1716 John Gamble

1716–c.1742 Samuel Watkins

?–1750 William Lavington

1750– William Blizard

?–1759 Richard Wilson

1759–1762 Ralph Payne

c.1776 Thomas Jarvis

c.1792–1814 Rowland Burton

1814–1822 James Athill

1823–c.1833 Paul Daxon Horsford

c.1844–1847 Richard Weston Nanton

1847–1856 Robert Marsh Horsford

1856–>1863 Sir William Snagg (Antigua and Montserrat) (afterwards Chief Justice of British Guiana, 1868)

1863–1864 Richard Weston Mara (acting)

Dominica

c.1790 John Matson

1806 John Burrows

1812–c.1825 Archibald Gloster

1827–1828 John O'Driscoll

1828–1833 Robert Sympson Jameson (later as Attorney General of Upper Canada, vice-chancellor of the Court of Chancery of Upper Canada, Treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada, member of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada and Legislative Council of the Province of Canada)

c.1844 Henry John Glanville

1856–1861 Alan Ker

1861– Shalto Thomas Pemberton

Montserrat

1804– M. Dyett

c.1822–c.1825 Thomas Hill

c.1833 Dudley Semper

c.1842 John P. Trott

c.1844 Samuel Lee Frith

1844–1847 John Shiell

1847–1856 Sir Robert Marsh Horsford

1856– William Snagg (afterwards Chief Justice of British Guiana, 1868)

Nevis

1731–1751 John Dasent

1754– Joseph Herbert (died 1768)

1781-?1797 John Dasent

1787– John Ward

George Webb Daniell

1810– James Weekes

c.1822–1833 William Lawrence

c.1844 George Webb

1854–1856 Alan Ker

1856 Aston Devoren

St Kitts

c.1717 Clement Crooke

?–1727 John Greatheed

1727–c.1730 Jeremiah Browne

c.1730 William Pym Burt (died 1750)

Jeremiah Browne (reinstated)

1735– James Gordon

?–1759 Richard Wilson

1759– Ralph Payne (died 1763)

1766– Craister Greatheed (died 1780)

1780–1800 William Payne Georges

1804– William Woodley

1808–1819 J. Garnett

1820–1833 Robert Williams Pickwoad (Pickwood) (died <1834)

c.1844 Joseph King Wattley, Snr

?–1856 Aston Devoren

1856 Archibald Paul Burt (temp)

1857–1867 Henry James Ross

British Leeward Islands

1874–1875 Sir Julian Pauncefote

1875–1877 Sir William Henry Doyle

1878–1879 Sir George Campbell Anderson

1879–1882 Henry James Burford-Hancock

1881–1883 Sir John Tankerville Goldney (acting)

1883–1886 John Gorrie (afterwards Chief Justice of Trinidad, 1886)

1886–1891 Henry Ludlow

1891–1900 Henry Wrenfordsley

1900–1911 John Symonds Udal

1912–1919 Sir Frederic Mackenzie Maxwell

1919–1921 Charles James Griffin

1921–1922 Alfred Karney Young

1923–1924 George Campbell Deane

<1931–1937 James Stanley Rae

1937–1939 Sir Wilfred Wigley

Windward and Leeward Islands

1940–1942 James Henry Jarrett

1942–?1953 Clement Malone

1953–?1955 Sir Donald Jackson

1955– Joseph Lyttleton Wills

1959->1963 Cyril George Xavier Henriques

References

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