Henry Juta

The Right Honourable Sir
Henry Herbert Juta
KC
Judge of the Appellate Division of South Africa
In office
1920–1923
Prime Minister Jan Smuts
Judge President of the Cape Provincial Division
In office
1914–1920
Speaker of the Cape House of Assembly
In office
1896–1898
Prime Minister Gordon Sprigg
Personal details
Born 1857
Cape Town
Died 1930
Nationality South 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.

Family

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

References

  1. Zimmermann, Reinhard; Visser, Daniel (1996). Southern Cross: Civil Law and Common Law in South Africa. Cape Town: Juta.


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