Английская Википедия:Herbert Cox (judge)

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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Sir Herbert Charles Fahie Cox (1893 – 21 September 1973) was a British lawyer who served in various positions in the colonial legal service, including chief justice of Northern Rhodesia, Tanganyika and Bechuanaland.

Career

Early years (1893–1933)

Herbert Charles Fahie Cox was the second son of the Hon. Charles Thomas Fox, Government Secretary.Шаблон:Sfn He was born in 1893 in British Guiana and educated in the United Kingdom.Шаблон:Sfn He attended Reading School, and was admitted to the Middle Temple on 31 December 1910.Шаблон:Sfn

Cox joined the colonial legal service, and in 1913 was appointed acting sub-inspector of police in British Guiana.Шаблон:Sfn He was called to the bar at Middle Temple in absence on 28 April 1915.Шаблон:Sfn In 1915 he became sub-inspector of police in British Guiana (now Guyana), holding office until his resignation in 1919. In 1920 he was appointed assistant to the attorney-general of British Guiana.Шаблон:Sfn

In 1925 Cox was appointed attorney-general of the Bahamas.Шаблон:Sfn During a debate in the Legislative Council in 1926 Cox argued in favour of making San Salvador Island the primary name of Watling's Island, while Watling's Island would remain a subsidiary name. It was thought that this was the first island where Christopher Columbus had made landfall in 1492.Шаблон:Sfn In 1929 he became attorney-general of Gibraltar.Шаблон:Sfn

Nigeria (1933–1946)

Fox was appointed solicitor-general of Nigeria in 1933.Шаблон:Sfn In 1935 he was appointed attorney-general of Nigeria.Шаблон:Sfn In 1942 Cox made a major attempt to revise the culture associated with Dane guns, or locally made firearms. He presented a bill to the Legislative Council under which a free permit would be granted to every firearm owner "considered [a] proper person." However, that person would need a license to use a firearm. His goal was "to ascertain exactly where and in whose custody" guns were.Шаблон:Sfn

Northern Rhodesia and Tanganyika (1946–1956)

On 4 February 1946 Herbert Charles Fahie Cox, Attorney-General, Nigeria, was appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia).Шаблон:Sfn In June 1946 Cox received a knighthood.Шаблон:Sfn In November 1951 Herbert Charles Fahie Cox, K.C., Chief Justice, Northern Rhodesia was appointed Chief Justice, Tanganyika.Шаблон:Sfn He held office in Tanganyika from 1952 to 1956.Шаблон:Sfn

Last years (1956–1973)

In February 1956 Sir Herbert Cox, Q.C., lately Chief Justice in Tanganyika, was appointed chairman of a Commission of Inquiry into the recent disturbances in Sierra Leone against the increases in hut tax. The commission was to inquire into the causes of the disturbances and the action taken to deal with them, and to make recommendations.Шаблон:Sfn In 1957 Cox was appointed Chief Justice of Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland (BBS) in place of Harold Curwen Willan (1896-1971), who had left office in 1956. In 1961 Peter Watkin-Williams became Chief Justice of BBS.Шаблон:Sfn

Cox became a member of the Dorset County Court in September 1963, and chairman of the Wiltshire Quarter Sessions in August 1964. He died on 21 September 1973.Шаблон:Sfn

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