Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Jacob William Barth
CBE (23 July 1871 – 30 May 1941) was a
British lawyer
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who served as the
Attorney General of the East Africa Protectorate and
Chief Justice of Kenya.
Biography
Barth was born in
London,
United Kingdom in 1871. He attended
Battersea Grammar School
Battersea Grammar School was a Voluntary-Controlled Secondary Grammar School in South London. It was established in Battersea in 1875 by the Sir Walter St John Trust and moved to larger premises in Streatham in 1936.
The school closed when it ...
and matriculated from
Wadham College, Oxford in 1890. Barth was admitted to
Middle Temple and
called to the bar
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on 27 June 1900. He served as Attorney General of the
East Africa Protectorate between 1914 and 1918.
In 1920, he was appointed Chief Justice of
Kenya and remained in the post until he retired in 1934.
He was made a
Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1916 and
Knight Bachelor in 1922.
[''Whitakers Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage'', 1923, London, England.] Barth died in
Albury, Surrey in 1941.
See also
*
Chief Justice of Kenya
*
Attorney General of Kenya
References
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1871 births
1941 deaths
20th-century Kenyan judges
Chief justices of Kenya
Attorneys General of Kenya
Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford
People educated at Battersea Grammar School
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Alumni of the Inns of Court School of Law
Knights Bachelor
British Kenya people