Sir William Henry Hyndman Jones (9 August 1847 – 20 August 1926) was a British colonial judge and administrator.
William Henry Hyndman Jones | |
|---|---|
 William Henry Hyndman Jones circa 1908 | |
| Born | 9 August 1847  Liverpool |
| Died | 20 August 1926 (aged 79) Bournemouth |
| Education | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Barrister |
William Henry Hyndman Jones was born on 9 August 1847 in Liverpool.[1][2] He attended Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge,[3] was admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 21 November 1870, and was called to the bar of Lincoln's Inn on 3 July 1878.[1][2]
In 1880, two years after his call to the bar, he went to Barbados to review the operations of its police force.[3][4] One year later, he became an acting judge of the Barbados Court of Appeal.[3] In 1883, he was the chief justice of both Saint Lucia and Tobago, as well as the attorney general and a member of the executive council of either or both colonies.[3] He held various judicial and administrative positions in Jamaica from 1887 to 1896.[3]
Hyndman Jones was sent to the Straits Settlements in 1896.[3] He became the acting judicial commissioner of the Federated Malay States in 1903 and chief judicial commissioner effective 1 January 1906.[3] In August 1906, he became the chief justice of the Straits Settlements.[3] He retired in 1914.[4]
He was appointed a knight bachelor in 1906.[2][5]
Hyndman Jones died on 20 August 1926 in Bournemouth, England.[2][6]
Notes
edit- ^ a b Who's Who in the Far East. The China Mail. 1906. p. 155. OCLC 1158370676.
- ^ a b c d Venn, John; Venn, John Archibald, eds. (1947). Alumni Cantabrigienses. Cambridge University Press. p. 611. OCLC 1050246833.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Wright, Arnold; Cartwright, H. A. (1908). Twentieth Century Impressions of British Malaya. Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company Ltd. p. 134.
- ^ a b Makepeace, Walter; Brooke, Gilbert E.; Braddell, Roland St. John (1921). One Hundred Years of Singapore. London: J. Murray. pp. 238–239. OCLC 1049967272.
- ^ Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. 1912. p. 457.
- ^ "Sir W. Hyndman Jones". South China Morning Post. 23 September 1926. p. 10. ProQuest 1499748045.
  | This United Kingdom law-related biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |