Alfred Lucie-Smith
Sir Alfred van Waterschoodt Lucie-Smith (9 January 1854 – 3 June 1947) was British colonial judge.
Lucie-Smith was the second son of Sir John Lucie-Smith, a former Chief Justice of Jamaica, and his wife Marie, eldest daughter of J. R. van Waterschoodt.[1] He was educated a Rugby School and from 1877 worked as a solicitor in British Guiana.[2]
In 1881 he was called to the bar by the Middle Temple and a year later became acting Solicitor General of British Guiana.[2] Lucie-Smith was sent to Cyprus in 1887 and there was appointed president of a district court in Famagusta.[2] After five years, he was transferred to another court in Limassol.[2] Smith was nominated an Acting Queen's Advocate in 1893 and was attached to Constantinople in 1895 as an Acting Consular Judge.[2] Only a year later he came to Kingston, Jamaica, where he acted as the parish's resident magistrate.[2] In 1898, Lucie-Smith returned to British Guiana, having been made a Puisne Judge.[3] He stayed in this office until 1908 and received then an appointment as Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago.[4] Lucie-Smith was created a Knight Bachelor in 1911[5] and retired as judge in 1924.[6]
On 15 August 1885, he married Rose Alice, seventh daughter of Edward Leopold Aves at the church Nuestra Señora del Monte in Demarara.[7] After her death, he remarried 4 September 1901, in Kensington, Mary Meta Ruth Palmer Ross, daughter of Sir David Palmer Ross, at some time Surgeon-General of British Guiana.[8] Lucie-Smith was father of six sons and a daughter.[6] His son John served also as a judge and was Chief Justice of Sierra Leone.[6]
Notes
- ^ Reade (1904), p. 213
- ^ a b c d e f Debrett (1922), p. 480
- ^ "No. 26927". The London Gazette. 7 January 1898.
- ^ "No. 28161". The London Gazette. 24 July 1908.
- ^ "No. 28469". The London Gazette. 24 February 1911.
- ^ a b c Who's Who (1947), p. 1693
- ^ "Marriage Notices". The Times. 15 September 1885.
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References
- Reade, Compton (1904). The Smith Family. London: Elliot Stock.
- Who's Who 1947. London: Adam & Charles Black Ltd. 1947.
- Debrett, John (1922). Arthur G. M. Hesilrige (ed.). Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench. London: Dean & Son Ltd.