Sir Andries Ferdinand Stockenström Maasdorp (14 January 1847 – 18 March 1931) was chief justice of the Orange River Colony. He was knighted in 1904.

Early life and education

Maasdorp was the second of the five sons of Gysbert Henry Maasdorp and his wife, Anna Maria Hartzenberg. His eldest brother, also Gysbert Henry Maasdorp, was member of the Cape legislative assembly for Graaff-Reinet and the third brother was Justice

Christian Maasdorp Christian George Maasdorp (11 June 1848 – 21 May 1926) was a South African jurist and Judge of Appeal. Early life and education Maasdorp was the son of Gysbert Henry Maasdorp, a medical doctor, and his wife, Anna Maria Hartzenberg and the young ...

. Maasdorp was educated at the grammar school at Graaff Reinet. In 1865, he was awarded a gold medal by the Cape board of examiners, for coming first in mathematics and classics in their examination. He subsequently studied at Graaff- Reinet College and at University College London, where he obtained a BA in 1869.

Career

In 1871 he was admitted to the Inner Temple as barrister, and from March 1872 practised at the Cape bar. In 1890 he became Queen's Counsel. In the late 1890s he moved to Pretoria and practised at the Pretoria bar from 1897 until 1899. When a dispute arose between President Paul Kruger and Chief Justice John Gilbert Kotzé, Maasdorp sided with Kotzé. With the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War, he returned to the Cape Colony and once again practised at Grahamstown. In 1902 he became Chief Justice of the Orange River Colony and after South Africa became a Union, he became the Judge President of the

Orange Free State Provincial Division The Free State Division of the High Court of South Africa (previously named the Orange Free State Provincial Division and the Free State High Court, and commonly known as the Bloemfontein High Court) is a superior court of law with general jurisd ...

of the Supreme Court of South Africa. He was knighted in 1904 and retired from the bench at the end of 1919.

Personal life

Maasdorp married Agnes Catherine Thomson Hayton in 1880 and they had three sons and two daughters.

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