Chief Justice of St Lucia

The chief justice of St Lucia was the head of the Supreme Court of St Lucia, an island member of the Windward Islands in the West Indies.

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 which performs both functions.

List of chief justices

1824–1831 John Jeremie 1831 John Paynter Musson 1833–1836 Jeffery Hart BentAlumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students ..., Volume 2 (afterwards Chief Justice of British Guiana, 1836) 1836–>1848 John Reddie The British Imperial Calendar, 1844 1850–1859 Sir Robert Bowcher Clarke (also Chief Justice of Barbados) Alumni Cantabrigienses 1859–>1869 John Grey Porter Atthill 1871–1881 James Sherrard Armstrong (also Chief Justice of Tobago, 1880) 1882–1889 Sir John Worrell Carrington (St Lucia and Tobago) (afterwards Attorney General of British Guiana) 1890–1902 Arthur Child 1903–1905 John Bayldon Walker 1906–1912 Percy Musgrave Cresswell Sheriff (afterwards Chief Justice of Bermuda, 1912) 1912–1919 Frank Herbert CollerThe Edinburg Gazette 24 September 1912Saint Lucia Blue Book, 1st April to 31st December 1919 (Castries: Government Printer to the Government of St Lucia, 1921), p. N17. 1919–1927 Sir Anthony de Freitas Weekly Notes - Volume 2 - Page 339 (afterwards Chief Justice of British Guiana, 1927) 1930–1934 Thomas William Savile Garraway 1934–1940 George Edward Fugl Richards

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