Thomas Haycraft

Sir Thomas Wagstaffe Haycraft (1859–1936) was successively the Chief Justice of Grenada and Palestine.

Haycraft was a barrister who worked for the British Colonial Service. He was Chief Justice of Grenada from 1916 to 1921 and Chief Justice of Palestine from 1921 to 1927.

He served as the head of the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry which looked into the causes of the Arab rioting in Palestine in 1921.

Sources

• Sachar, Howard A. A History of Israel from Zionism to the Present. Second Edition. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996) p. 125
• Daniel Monk. An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestinian Conflict - Terrible Episodes. (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2002) p. 156