Walter Huggard

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Sir Walter Clarence Huggard QC (d. 21 June 1957) was a British barrister, acting High Commissioner for the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland and Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements.

Education[]

Sir Walter was educated at Methodist College Belfast and Dublin University where he was First Honourman and Senior Moderator in Legal and Political Science.[1] He received an LLD and was called to the Bar at King's Inn in 1907.[2]

Career[]

In 1914 he became a magistrate in Nigeria and in 1920 was appointed Solicitor General for Trinidad and Tobago. Huggard took silk in 1921.[3] The following year he became Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago and was Attorney General for the Kenya Colony from 1926–29 (a position which also gave him a seat in the Legislative Council) and Attorney General for the Straits Settlements from 1929–33.[4][5] Huggard was knighted in 1933.[6] He was succeeded as Attorney General of the Straits Settlements by Percy McElwaine.[7] From 1933 to 1936 he served as Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements.[8][9]

Sir Walter was later Judge of the High Courts of Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland and was legal advisor to the High Commissioner from 1937.[10] In 1938, 1940, 1942, 1945 and 1946 he fulfilled the role of acting High Commissioner for the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland[11]

In 1948 he retired.[12]

Personal life[]

He married Kathleen Norah in 1915.[13]

Sir Walter died in Hermanus near Cape Town.[14]

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  4. ^ "Attorneys General of Singapore - Attorney General's Chambers". www.agc.gov.sg.
  5. ^ "Sir Walter Huggard". The Times (53875): 15. 24 June 1957.
  6. ^ "Sir Walter Huggard". The Times (53875): 15. 24 June 1957.
  7. ^ "Chief Justice, Straits Settlements". The Times (47497): 12. 5 October 1936.
  8. ^ "Huggard, Sir Walter Clarence". WHO'S WHO.
  9. ^ "Judges of the Past". www.supremecourt.gov.sg.
  10. ^ "Sir Walter Huggard". The Times (53875): 15. 24 June 1957.
  11. ^ "Sir Walter Huggard". The Times (53875): 15. 24 June 1957.
  12. ^ "Sir Walter Huggard". The Times (53875): 15. 24 June 1957.
  13. ^ "Sir Walter Huggard". The Times (53875): 15. 24 June 1957.
  14. ^ "Sir Walter Huggard". The Times (53875): 15. 24 June 1957.
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