Saul Solomon (judge)
Hon. Saul Solomon QC (1875-1960), styled Mr Justice Solomon, was a judge in the Supreme Court of South Africa.
Biography
Solomon was born in Sea Point, Cape Town, on 9 April 1875. His mother was Georgiana Solomon who was a teacher and later a suffragette.[1] His father was Saul Solomon, the influential liberal politician of the Cape Colony. Saul Solomon was educated at Bedford School and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he was a scholar. He was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn, in 1900, appointed as King's Counsel, in 1919, and as a judge in the Supreme Court of South Africa, between 1927 and 1945.[2]
Mr Justice Solomon died in St James, Cape Town, on 10 December 1960.[3]
References
- ^ Elizabeth van Heyningen, "Solomon , Georgiana Margaret (1844–1933)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2006. Accessed 17 November 2017.
- ^ "Who's Who".
- ^ Obituary, Cape Times, 16 December 1960
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