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Saul Solomon (judge)

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Hon. Saul Solomon QC (1875-1960), styled Mr Justice Solomon, was a Judge in the Supreme Court of South Africa.

Biography

Born in Sea Point, Cape Town, on 9 April 1875, the son of 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.[1]

Mr Justice Solomon died in St James, Cape Town, on 10 December 1960.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Who's Who".
  2. ^ Obituary, Cape Times, 16 December 1960