Richard Feetham

Richard Feetham

Richard Feetham (born November 22, 1874 in Penrhos , Monmouthshire , † November 5, 1965 in Pietermaritzburg ) was a British judge, politician and university chancellor in South Africa .

Life

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After graduating from Ashampstead preparatory school , Richard Feetham studied at Marlborough College and New College , Oxford . He then studied law at Lincoln's Inn . In 1899 he was admitted to the bar. During the Second Boer War , he volunteered for service with the Inns of Court Rifles .

Feetham was named deputy to Lionel Curtis , chief of Johannesburg city ​​council , in October 1902 . He had been friends with Curtis since he was a student at New College. Feetham took over Curtis' office in April 1903, when this changed as Assistant Colonial Secretary in the colonial administration. Feetham left the city council two years later and was admitted to the bar in South Africa. From now on he acted as legal advisor to Lord Selborne, the High Commissioner in South Africa ; first from 1907 to 1910, and then again from 1912 to 1923.

Feetham began his political career in 1907 as a member of the Transvaal Legislative Council , the legislative body of the Transvaal (1907-1910). In 1915 he was elected to the Union House of Assembly as a candidate for the Parktown constituency in Johannesburg ; later he became a member of the South African Party . During the First World War, Feetham was assigned to the South African Cape Corps and served in East Africa and briefly in Egypt from 1916 to 1918.

In 1923 Feetham returned his seat in parliament to follow an appeal to the Crown Prosecutor of the Supreme Court of the Union of South Africa in the Transvaal Province. In 1930 he was appointed Chief Justice of the Natal Province and in 1939 a Judge at the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein .

In 1938 Feetham was elected Vice-Chancellor and in 1949 Chancellor of the Johannesburg University of the Witwatersrand . His legal expertise was valued and he chaired various commissions both in South Africa and abroad, including chairing the Southborough Committee on Constitutional Reform in India (1918-1919), the Irish Boundary Commission (1924-1925), the Kenya Local Government Commission (1926), the Shanghai Municipal Council Commission (1930-1931), the Transvaal Asiatic Land Tenure Commission (1932-1935) and the Witwatersrand Land Titles Commission (1946-1949).

Richard Feetham was one of the men at Milner's Kindergarten .

Two of his brothers also made careers abroad: William Crawley Feetham was vicar in South Africa and John Oliver Feetham (1873–1947) was bishop in Queensland, Australia .

Publications

• Feetham, Richard: Report to the Shanghai Municipal Council , Shanghai: North-China Daily News and Herald, 1931.
• Great Britain, Francis John Stephens Hopwood Southborough, Richard Feetham, Frederic John Napier Thesiger Chelmsford, William Henry Hoare Vincent, and C. Sankaran Nair: East India (Constitutional Reforms: Lord Southborough's Committees) , London: HM Stationery Off, 1919.
• Feetham, Richard: Political Apartheid and the Entrenched Clauses of the South Africa Act ; Dr. Malan's "Historical Facts." [Durban]: Defenders of the Constitution, 1953.
• Feetham, Richard: The High Court of Parliament Act and the Rule of Law Durban: Defenders of the Constitution, 1953. Print.

literature

• Report on the Correspondence and Papers of Richard Feetham (1874-1965) South African Politician and Judge , London: Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts for Rhodes House Library, 1983. Print.

Individual evidence

1. ^ South African History Online: Richard Feetham . on www.sahistory.org.za (English)
2. ↑ Collection Level Description: Papers of the Hon. Richard Feetham No. 1198 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996
3. ^ Biographical note in: The National Archives Catalog;

Remarks

1. ↑ The task of the Irish Boundary Commission (English for Irish Boundary Commission ) was the definition of the border between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland .