Sir Henry James Burford-Hancock, CMG (died 23 October 1895) was a British lawyer and colonial judge. Born Henry James Hancock (he assumed the additional surname of Burford by royal license in 1881), he was the son of Henry Hancock FRCS, sometime President of the

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. He was educated at

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and was an officer in the

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and captain in the Kent Militia Artillery. He was called to the car at the

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in Hilary 1866 and practiced for several years on the Home Circuit and at the Sussex and Brighton Sessions. He was a judge of the District Court of Jamaica from 1876 to 1878, when he was appointed Attorney-General of the Leeward Islands and Chancellor of the Diocese of Antigua. He was

Chief Justice of the Leeward Islands The chief justice of the Leeward Islands headed the Supreme Court of the Leeward Islands. The British Leeward Islands was a British colony existing between 1833 and 1960, and consisted of Antigua, Barbuda, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, S ...

from 1879 to 1882,

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from 1882 to 1895, and

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from January 1895 until his death. Cundall, Frank. (1915) ''Historic Jamaica''. London: Institute of Jamaica. pp. xviii–xix. He was knighted in 1882 and appointed CMG in 1891. His daughter, Rachel, married General Sir Richard Haking.

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