Albert F. Erhardt (1862 – 30 August 1929) was a British lawyer, judge, and

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. Erhardt graduated from

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in 1885 with a degree in Classics. He began practicing Law in 1889, before joining the colonial service in 1896 as District Commissioner of

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, now in

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. He went on to become Resident of Ibadan, as well as Attorney-General and Treasurer of Lagos (succeeding F. C. Fuller, in 1902). In February 1903 he became

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, serving until 1914. During this period he also filled in for Sir Charles Major, the

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and

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, from 1910 to 1911, while Major was acting in an interim capacity as

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and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific. In his role as Attorney-General, he also served in the Executive Council and Legislative Council. In 1914, he returned to Africa as a judge of the British East Africa Protectorate. His final post, in 1920, was as a temporary assistant legal adviser in the Colonial Office. , -

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