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, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla and Dominica (to 1940). Prior to 1871, when the Supreme Court was established, the individual islands had their own courts.
In 1939 the Windward and Leeward Islands Supreme Court and the Windward and Leeward Islands Court of Appeal were established, which was replaced in 1967 by the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court which provides both functions.
List of chief justices
Antigua 1706– Samuel Watkins ?–1716 John Gamble 1716–c.1742 Samuel Watkins ?–1750 William Lavington 1750– William Blizard ?–1759 Richard Wilson 1759–1762 Ralph Payne c.1776 Thomas Jarvis c.1792–1814 Rowland Burton 1814–1822 James Athill 1823–c.1833 Paul Daxon Horsford c.1844–1847 Richard Weston NantonThe British Imperial Calendar, 1844 1847–1856 Robert Marsh HorsfordThe Colonial Office List 1856–>1863 Sir William Snagg (Antigua and Montserrat) (afterwards Chief Justice of British Guiana, 1868) 1863–1864 Richard Weston Mara (acting)
Dominica 1767–1773 Thomas Atwood (afterwards Chief Justice of the Bahamas) 1773 James Ashley Hall (died in office) 1773–1779 Thomas Wilson 1789–1805 John Matson 1806 John Burrows 1812–c.1825 Archibald Gloster 1827–1828 John O'Driscoll 1828–1833 Robert Sympson Jameson c.1844 Henry John Glanville 1849–? Henry Isles Woodcock 1856–1861 Alan KerA Catalogue of Notable Middle Templars: 1861– Shalto Thomas Pemberton
Montserrat 1804– M. DyettParliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 31 c.1822–c.1825 Thomas HillThe Royal Kalendar and Court and City Register for England, Scotland c.1833 Dudley Semper c.1842 John P. TrottThe Royal Kalendar, and Court and City Register for England, Scotland c.1844 Samuel Lee Frith 1844–1847 John Shiell 1847–1856 Sir Robert Marsh Horsford 1856– William Snagg (afterwards Chief Justice of British Guiana, 1868)
Nevis 1731–1751 John Dasent 1754– Joseph Herbert (died 1768) 1781–1787 John Dasent 1787– John Ward George Webb Daniell 1810– James WeekesThe history of the island of Antigua. c.1822–1833 William Lawrence c.1844 George Webb 1854–1856 Alan Ker 1856 Aston Devoren
St Kitts c.1717 Clement Crooke ?–1727 John Greatheed 1727–c.1730 Jeremiah Browne c.1730 William Pym Burt (died 1750) Jeremiah Browne (reinstated) 1735– James Gordon ?–1759 Richard Wilson 1759– Ralph Payne (died 1763) 1766– Craister Greatheed (died 1780) 1780–1800 William Payne Georges 1804– William Woodley 1808–1819 J. Garnett 1820–1833 Robert Williams Pickwoad (Pickwood) (died 8 Feb 1834) c.1844 Joseph King Wattley, Snr 1849–? Henry John Glanville ?–1856 Aston DevorenSir Archibald Burt: First Chief Justice of Western Australia, 1861-1879 (afterwards Chief Justice of Nevis) 1856 Archibald Paul Burt (temp) 1857–1867 Henry James RossParliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 17 1873–1874 Robert French Sheriff (acting)
British Leeward Islands 1874–1875 Sir Julian Pauncefote 1875–1877 Sir William Henry Doyle 1878–1879 Sir George Campbell Anderson 1879–1882 Sir Henry James Burford-Hancock 1881–1883 Sir John Tankerville Goldney (acting) 1883–1886 Sir John Gorrie (afterwards Chief Justice of Trinidad, 1886) 1886–1891 Sir Henry Ludlow 1891–1900 Sir Henry Wrenfordsley 1900–1911 John Symonds Udal 1912–1919 Sir Frederic Mackenzie Maxwell 1919–1921 Sir Charles James Griffin 1921–1922 Sir Alfred Karney Young 1923–1924 Sir George Campbell Deane 1925–1931 Sir Herbert Cecil Stronge 1931–1937 Sir James Stanley Rae 1937–1939 Sir Wilfred Murray Wigley
Windward and Leeward Islands 1940–1943 James Henry Jarrett 1943–1950 Sir Clement Malone 1950–1957 Sir Donald Edward Jackson 1958–1963 Sir Cyril George Xavier Henriques 1963–?1967 Frank E. Field
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