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Benjamin Arthur Tindall KC (26 April 1879 – 3 February 1963) was a South African judge who served as Judge President of the
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of the
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and Judge op Appeal.


Early life and education

Tindall was born in Leliefontein, a small
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mission station in the
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region of South Africa. His father, Henry Tindall, was a Wesleyan missionary, who also travelled widely in the area and became an expert on the customs and language of the
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. Tindall received his schooling at the Stellenbosch Gymnasium, after which he went on to the Victoria College in Stellenbosch, where he obtained a BA in Literature and an
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in 1901.


Career

Tindall started his working life in the Cape Civil Service and then as private secretary of Justice
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. He joined the Cape
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in January 1903 and a month later he joined the
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Bar. He
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in 1919 and in 1922 was appointed a judge of the
Transvaal Provincial Division The Gauteng Division of the High Court of South Africa is a superior court of law which has general jurisdiction over the South African province of Gauteng and the eastern part of North West province. The main seat of the division is at Pretoria, w ...
. Tindall was appointed Judge President of the Transvaal Division in 1937 and in 1938 he was appointed to the Appellate Division.


Published works

Tindall was the editor of the autobiography by the second
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, James Rose Innes, titled: * James Rose Innes: Chief Justice of South Africa, 1914-27: Autobiography; first published in 1949.


See also

* List of Judges President of the Gauteng Division of the High Court of South Africa


References

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