The Chief Justice of St Vincent was the head of the
Supreme Court of Saint Vincent in
Saint Vincent, an island member of the
Windward Islands
french: Îles du Vent
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in the
West Indies
The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea that includes 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies and other territories in three major archipelagos: the Greate ...
.
The court was replaced by the
Windward and Leeward Islands Supreme Court and the
Windward and Leeward Islands Court of Appeal in 1939; both in turn were replaced in 1967 by the
Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court
The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) is a superior court of record for the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), including six independent states: Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Ne ...
which performs both functions.
List of Chief Justices
* 1803– Drewry Ottley
(died 1807)
* 1811– Edward Sharpe
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* 1822– William Wylly ][
* 1827– John Henry Hobson ][
* 1831–1846 John Peterson
* 1846–>1856 Henry Edward Sharpe
* 1866–>1896 George Trafford
* 1897 Geoffrey St. Aubyn (acting)
* 1903–1906 Percy Musgrave Cresswell Sheriff (afterwards Chief Justice of St Lucia, 1906)
* 1907– Walter Shaw (afterwards Chief Justice of British Honduras, 1912)
*1912–1915 ]Robert Blair Roden
Sir Robert Blair Roden (21 April 1860 – 5 February 1939) was a British colonial judge. He was Chief Justice of St Vincent from 1912 to 1915 and Chief Justice of British Honduras from 1915 to 1921.
Biography
Roden was born in Antigua, the so ...
(afterwards Chief Justice of British Honduras, 1915)
* 1915–1919 Sir Anthony de Freitas (afterwards Chief Justice of St Lucia, 1919)
* 1919– Samuel Joyce Thomas
* 1923–1927 James Stanley Rae (afterwards Chief Justice of Grenada
The Chief Justice of Grenada is the head of the Supreme Court of Grenada which consists of the High Court with three justices and a two-tier Court of Appeal.
The original High Court of Grenada was replaced by the Windward and Leeward Islands Supre ...
, 1927)
* 1928– Willoughby Bullock
* 1930–1931 James Henry Jarrett (acting) (afterwards Attorney-General of the Bahamas, 1933)
* 1931–1933 Ransley Thacker
Ransley Samuel Thacker (1891 – 3 January 1966) was a British lawyer and judge. Employed in the colonial service, he served as Chief Justice of St Vincent (1931–1933), Attorney General of Fiji (1933-1938), and as a judge in British Kenya. He ...
(afterwards Attorney General of Fiji, 1933)
* 1935–1938 George Cyril Griffith Williams
References
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St Vincent
Chief justices
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines judges