Sir Herbert Kortright McDonnell Sisnett (1862–3 June 1937) was a British lawyer and colonial judge. The son of G. W. Sisnett, Rector of St George's, Barbados, Sisnett was educated in Barbados at

The Lodge School The Lodge School is a co-educational government secondary school in Saint John, Barbados, established in 1745. The school has closed and reopened four times, and has been known as Codrington College, The College, The Mansion School, the Codrington ...

and Harrison College, before being called to the English bar by the Inner Temple in 1896. He was Registrar General and District Commissioner, Belize, British Honduras, in 1907–12; he also acted at Attorney General and Chief Justice of British Honduras on several occasions during the period. In 1913–21, he was Stipendiary Magistrate in British Guiana, and acted as Attorney General of British Guiana in 1920–21. He was senior Puisne Judge in Jamaica during 1921–22, before being appointed

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in 1922. He was sole arbitrator in the Shufeldt claim between the United States and Guatemala in 1930. He was knighted in 1927 and retired in 1931. A philatelist, Sisnett was a Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society London. Sisnett married in 1893 Mary Hélène, daughter of J. C. Deane, Barbados, and had issue.

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* https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-217139 Knights Bachelor 1862 births 1937 deaths British philatelists Fellows of the Royal Philatelic Society London British Honduras judges British Guiana judges Colony of Jamaica judges 20th-century Jamaican judges Colony of Barbados people {{British-Empire-stub