Albert F. Erhardt (1862 – 30 August 1929) was a British lawyer, judge, and colonial administrator.
Erhardt graduated from Worcester College, Oxford in 1885 with a degree in Classics. He began practicing Law in 1889, before joining the colonial service in 1896 as District Commissioner of Lagos, now in Nigeria. He went on to become Resident of Ibadan, as well as Attorney-General and Treasurer of Lagos (succeeding F. C. Fuller, in 1902). In February 1903 he became Attorney-General of Fiji,Fiji Blue Book for the Year 1903, p112 serving until 1914. During this period he also filled in for Sir Charles Major, the Chief Justice of Fiji and Chief Judicial Commissioner for the Western Pacific, from 1910 to 1911, while Major was acting in an interim capacity as Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific.Ehrhardt was also Attorney General 1903-1914; acting for Major while Major was Acting Governor of Fiji (1910-1911). In his role as Attorney-General, he also served in the Executive Council and Legislative Council.Fiji Blue Book for the Year 1903, pp80–81
In 1914, he returned to Africa as a judge of the British East Africa Protectorate. His final post, in 1920, was as a temporary assistant legal adviser in the Colonial Office.
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