Jacob William Barth
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Jacob William Barth CBE (23 July 1871 – 30 May 1941) was a British lawyer who served as the Attorney General of the East Africa Protectorate and Chief Justice of Kenya.
Biography
Barth was born in London, United Kingdom in 1871.[1] He attended Battersea Grammar School and matriculated from Wadham College, Oxford in 1890.[2] Barth was admitted to Middle Temple and called to the bar on 27 June 1900.[3] He served as Attorney General of the East Africa Protectorate between 1914 and 1918.[4] In 1920 he was appointed Chief Justice of Kenya and remained in the post until he retired in 1934.[5] He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1916 and Knight bachelor in 1922.[6] Barth died in Albury, Surrey in 1941.
gollark: That sounds nice, though there'll inevitably be other taxes tacked on top.
gollark: ... isn't that actually quite significant?
gollark: I don't think you can blame just *one* factor like contractors for government inefficiency.
gollark: The not-sold-as-reusable ones actually can last for a while. We have loads of them around at home for shopping.
gollark: Computerized voting: because computer systems never have big security problems, and trusting elections to closed source voting machines is totally fine!
References
- "Oxford men, 1880-1892, with a record of their schools, honours and degrees". archive.org.
- "Oxford men, 1880-1892, with a record of their schools, honours and degrees". archive.org.
- "Register of admissions to Middle Temple" (PDF). archive.middletemple.org.uk.
- Kenya Gazette 4 Mar 1914
- "Office of the Chief Justice". judiciary.go.ke.
- Whitakers Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage, 1923, London, England
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