Walter Huggard
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
[edit | edit source]Sir Walter was educated at Methodist College Belfast and Trinity College Dublin 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
[edit | edit source]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 to 1929 (a position which also gave him a seat in the Legislative Council) and Attorney General for the Straits Settlements from 1929 to 1933.[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
[edit | edit source]He married Kathleen Norah in 1915.[13]
Sir Walter died in Hermanus near Cape Town.[14]
Sources
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