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Sir William Conrad Reeves (Saint Joseph, Barbados 1838Шаблон:Efn – Barbados, 8 January 1902),[1] was a nineteenth century lawyer and academic in Barbados.

Biography

Reeves was born in Barbados, to Thomas Phillipps Reeves and Peggy Phyllis.[1] He represented the Parish of Saint Joseph, within the House of Assembly in Bridgetown. He was patronised, with funds collected by the black community, to stay in the United Kingdom to study at the Middle Temple, which he left in 1863.[2] He subsequently became Attorney general of St Vincent. He was appointed Solicitor-General of Barbados in 1875. He was Attorney General of Barbados from 1882 to 1886. In 1883 he was admitted to the Queen's Counsel.[3]

He became the first black Chief Justice of Barbados in 1886. He served in this position until his death. In 1889, Reeves was knighted by Queen Victoria, and thus became the first black man to be knighted by a British sovereign.[2]

Family

Reeves married, in 1868, Margaret Rudder, who was the daughter of J. T. R. Rudder. They had one daughter.[1]

References

Footnotes

Шаблон:Notes References Шаблон:Reflist

External links

Шаблон:Attorney-General of Barbados Шаблон:Authority control


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  1. 1,0 1,1 1,2 'REEVES, Hon. Sir William Conrad’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 1920 – 2007 (online ed. Oxford University Press, December 2007)
  2. 2,0 2,1 Шаблон:Cite newspaper The Times
  3. Шаблон:London Gazette