List of Chief Justices of Jamaica

This is a list of Chief Justices of Jamaica.

British Colony (1655–1962)

• Philip Ward (1661–)[1]
• Samuel Barry (c.1661–)[1]
• William Mitchell (1663)[1]
• Sir Thomas Lynch (1664–1665)[1]
• John White (1671–)[1] (John White (governor)?)
• Sir Thomas Modyford (1675)[1][2]
• Samuel Long (1676–1679)[1][3]
• Robert Byndloss (1681–)[1]
• Samuel Bernard (1685–)[1] (Samuel Bernard (Jamaica)?)
• Robert Noell (1688)[1]
• Roger Elletson (1689)[1]
• Richard Lloyd (1689)[1]
• Richard Lloyd (1695–1698)[1][4]
• Sir Nicholas Lawes (1698–)[1]
• Peter Beckford (1703–)[1]
• John Walters (1706–)[1]
• Peter Heywood (1714–1715)[1]
• Peter Bernard (1716–)[1]
• John Ayscough (1724–)[1]
• Edward Pennant[1]
• Richard Mill (1733)[1]
• John Gregory (1733-35)[1]
• James Hay (1735)[1]
• George Ellis (1736–1739)[1]
• John Gregory (1739)[1]
• Dennis Kelly (1742–)[1]
• William Nedham (1746–)[1]
• John Hudson Guy (1749–)[1]
• John Palmer (1751–1756)[1]
• Rose Fuller (1753–?1755)[5]
• Thomas Fearon (1756–1764)[1]
• George Ellis (1765–)[1]
• Thomas Beach (1766–)[1]
• Peter Haywood (1770–)[1]
• Edward Webley (1776–)[1]
• Richard Welch (1779)[1]
• Thomas French (1780–1783)[1]
• John Grant (1784–1791)[1]
• Thomas Harrison (1790–) (acting)[1]
• William Jackson (1792–)[1]
• John Henckel (1801–)[1]
• John Kirby (1802–)[1]
• John Lewis (1808–)[1]
• Thomas Witter Jackson (1818–1821)[1]
• Sir William Anglin Scarlett (1821-1831)[1]
• Sir Joshua Rowe (1832–)[1][6]
• Sir Bryan Edwards (1855–)[1]
• Sir John Lucie-Smith (1869-)[1]
• Sir Adam Gibb Ellis (1884-1894)[1]
• Sir Henry James Burford-Hancock (January 1895[7] – October 1895)
• Sir Fielding Clarke (January 1896-1911)[1]
• Sir Anthony Coll (January 1911[8] – 1922)
• Anthony de Freitas (acting July 1922 - September 1923)
• St John Branch (June 1923[9] – 1925)
• Anthony de Freitas (acting January 1925 - February 1926)
• Fiennes Barrett-Lennard (1925-1932)
• Robert Lyall-Grant (August 1932[10] – 1936)
• Robert Howard Furness (April 1936[11] – 1944)
• Horace Hearne (1944-1951)
• Kenneth O'Connor (1951[12] – 1954)
• John Edward Doston Carberry (1954–1958?)
• Colin MacGregor (1957-1962)[13]

Independent Jamaica (since 1962)

• Rowland Phillips (1963-1968)[13]
• Allen Lewis (acting 1966)
• Herbert Duffus (1968-1973)[13]
• Kenneth Smith (1973-1984)[13]
• Edward Zacca (1985-1996)[13]
• Lensley Wolfe (1996-2007)[13]
• Zaila McCalla (2007-2018)
• Bryan Sykes (2018-Present)

References

1. Cundall, Frank. (1915) Historic Jamaica. London: Institute of Jamaica. pp. xviii-xix.
2. Marley, David. Pirates of the Americas, Volume 1. p. 247.
3. Marley, David. Pirates of the Americas, Volume 1. p. 510.
4. "LLOYD, Richard (c.1661-1714), of Westminster, Mdx". History of Parliament online. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
5. http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/ffc11047-8b25-46d0-b6d1-9824d7adebde
6. https://www.cornishstainedglass.org.uk/mgstc/chapter6.xhtml
7. "No. 26590". The London Gazette. 18 January 1895. p. 342.
8. "No. 28460". The London Gazette. 27 January 1911. p. 692.
9. "No. 32841". The London Gazette. 3 July 1923. p. 4613.
10. "No. 33856". The London Gazette. 19 August 1932. p. 5366.
11. "No. 34277". The London Gazette. 24 April 1936. p. 2624.
12. "No. 39186". The London Gazette. 30 March 1951. p. 1662.
13. Proud to be Jamaican. Kimone Thompson, Jamaica Observer, 5 August 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2019.