Sir Alfred van Waterschoodt Lucie-Smith (9 January 1854 – 3 June 1947) was a British colonial judge. Lucie-Smith was born in Demerara, British Guiana, the second son of Sir

John Lucie-Smith Sir John Lucie-Smith, (1825 – 9 July 1883) was Chief Justice of Jamaica. Cundall, Frank. (1915''Historic Jamaica''.London: Institute of Jamaica. pp. xviii-xix. He was born to lawyer John Lucie-Smith in Demerara, British Guiana and trained for th ...

, later the Chief Justice of Jamaica, and his wife Marie, eldest daughter of J. R. van Waterschoodt. He was educated at

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and from 1877 worked as a solicitor in

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. In 1878 he entered the

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, where he was called to the bar in 1881, and a year later became acting Solicitor General of British Guiana. He was sent to

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in 1887 where he served as president of a district court in

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.Debrett (1922), p. 480 After five years, he was transferred to another court in

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. Lucie-Smith was nominated an Acting Queen's Advocate in 1893 and was attached to

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in 1895 as an Acting Consular Judge. Only a year later he came to

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, where he acted as the parish's resident magistrate. In 1898, Lucie-Smith returned to British Guiana, having been made a

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. He stayed in this office until 1908, when he was appointed

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. He was created a

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in 1911 and retired as judge in 1924.Who's Who (1947), p. 1693 On 15 August 1885, he had married Rose Alice, seventh daughter of Edward Leopold Aves at the church Nuestra Señora del Monte in Demarara. After her death, he remarried 4 September 1901, in Kensington, Mary Meta Ruth Palmer Ross, daughter of Sir David Palmer Ross, at some time Surgeon-General of British Guiana. Lucie-Smith was father of eight sons and a daughter. His son

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served also as a judge and was

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. His nephew

Euan Lucie-Smith Euan Lucie-Smith (14 December 1889 – 25 April 1915) was a British Army second lieutenant of World War I, of mixed British and Afro-Caribbean descent. He was one of the first mixed-heritage infantry officers in a regular British Army regiment, ...

was one of the first mixed-heritage infantry officers in a regular British Army regiment, and the first killed in World War I.

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