The Chief Justice of St Vincent was the head of the Supreme Court of Saint Vincent in Saint Vincent, an island member of the

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in the

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. 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 * 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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