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Henry Herbert Juta
Judge of the Appellate Division of South Africa
In office
1920–1923
Prime MinisterJan Smuts
Judge President of the Cape Provincial Division
In office
1914–1920
Speaker of the Cape House of Assembly
In office
1896–1898
Prime MinisterGordon Sprigg
Personal details
Born1857
Cape Town
Died1930
NationalitySouth African

Sir Henry Herbert Juta (1857 - 1930) served as Speaker of the Cape House of Assembly, Judge President of the Cape Provincial Division and judge of the South African Appellate Division.[1]

He also served as MLA for Oudtshoorn (1893-98), and briefly in 1894 as Attorney General for the second government of Prime Minister Cecil Rhodes. He was knighted in the 1897 Diamond Jubilee Honours.[2]

In late 1902 he visited the United Kingdom with his family.[3]

Family

He was a nephew of Karl Marx and the son of Jan Carel and Louise Juta, who together founded the publishing house Juta and Company[4].

References

  1. ^ Zimmermann, Reinhard; Visser, Daniel (1996). Southern Cross: Civil Law and Common Law in South Africa. Cape Town: Juta.
  2. ^ Who Was Who Volume III (1929-1940). Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781408193372.
  3. ^ "Court Circular". The Times. No. 36882. London. 25 September 1902. p. 7. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
  4. ^ Juta Publishing into the Nienties. 1853–1990. 137 Years of publishing. Kapstadt 1990 (mit Bildern von J. C. Juta und Louise Juta).