Chief Justice of the Leeward Islands

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The Chief Justice of the Leeward Islands headed the Supreme Court of the Leeward Islands.

The British Leeward Islands was a British colony existing between 1833 and 1960, and consisting of Antigua, Barbuda, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla and Dominica (to 1940). Prior to 1871, when the Supreme Court was established, the individual islands had their own courts.

In 1939 the Windward and Leeward Islands Supreme Court and the Windward and Leeward Islands Court of Appeal were established, which was replaced in 1967 by the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court which provides both functions.[1]

List of Chief Justices

Antigua

  • 1706– Samuel Watkins [2]
  •  ?–1716 John Gamble [3]
  • 1716–c.1742 Samuel Watkins [3]
  •  ?–1750 William Lavington[4]
  • 1750– William Blizard [4]
  •  ?–1759 Richard Wilson [5]
  • 1759–1762 Ralph Payne[6]
  • c.1776 Thomas Jarvis [7]
  • c.1792–1814 Rowland Burton[8]
  • 1814–1822 James Athill [9]
  • 1823–c.1833 Paul Daxon Horsford [9]
  • c.1844–1847 Richard Weston Nanton [10]
  • 1847–1856 Robert Marsh Horsford [11]
  • 1856–>1863 Sir William Snagg [12][13] (Antigua and Montserrat) (afterwards Chief Justice of British Guiana, 1868)
  • 1863–1864 Richard Weston Mara (acting)[11]

Dominica

  • c.1790 John Matson
  • 1806 John Burrows
  • 1812–c.1825 Archibald Gloster [14]
  • 1827–1828 John O'Driscoll
  • 1828–1833 Robert Sympson Jameson (later as Attorney General of Justice of the Court of Chancery of Upper Canada)
  • c.1844 Henry John Glanville [10]
  • 1856–1861 Alan Ker [15]
  • 1861– Shalto Thomas Pemberton [11]

Montserrat

  • 1804– M. Dyett [9]
  • c.1822–c.1825 Thomas Hill [14]
  • c.1833 Dudley Semper
  • c.1842 John P. Trott [16]
  • c.1844 Samuel Lee Frith [10]
  • 1844–1847 John Shiell
  • 1847–1856 Sir Robert Marsh Horsford [17]
  • 1856– William Snagg [12] (afterwards Chief Justice of British Guiana, 1868)

Nevis

  • 1731–1751 John Dasent
  • 1754– Joseph Herbert (died 1768)
  • 1781-?1797 John Dasent
  • 1787– John Ward
  • George Webb Daniell
  • 1810– James Weekes [18]
  • c.1822–1833 William Lawrence
  • c.1844 George Webb [10]
  • 1854–1856 Alan Ker [15]
  • 1856 Aston Devoren [19]

St Kitts

  • c.1717 Clement Crooke
  •  ?–1727 John Greatheed [20]
  • 1727–c.1730 Jeremiah Browne [20]
  • c.1730 William Pym Burt (died 1750)[21]
  • Jeremiah Browne [20] (reinstated)
  • 1735– James Gordon[20]
  •  ?–1759 Richard Wilson
  • 1759– Ralph Payne (died 1763) [22]
  • 1766– Craister Greatheed (died 1780)
  • 1780–1800 William Payne Georges [23]
  • 1804– William Woodley [9]
  • 1808–1819 J. Garnett [9]
  • 1820–1833 Robert Williams Pickwoad (Pickwood) (died <1834)[9]
  • c.1844 Joseph King Wattley, Snr [10]
  •  ?–1856 Aston Devoren [24]
  • 1856 Archibald Paul Burt (temp) [24]
  • 1857–1867 Henry James Ross [25]

British Leeward Islands

Windward and Leeward Islands

  • 1940–1942 James Henry Jarrett
  • 1942–?1953 Clement Malone [37][38]
  • 1953–?1955 Sir Donald Jackson [39]
  • 1955– Joseph Lyttleton Wills [40]
  • 1959->1963 Cyril George Xavier Henriques [41]

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