Henry Juta

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Helen Lena Tait
​
(m. 1883)​
The Honourable
Sir Henry Herbert Juta
KC
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Judge of the Appellate Division of South Africa
In office
1920–1923
Children5
Parent(s) Jan Carel Juta
Louise Marx
Relatives Karl Marx (uncle)
Heinrich Marx (grandfather)
Henriette Pressburg (grandmother)
Laura Marx (cousin)
Eleanor Marx (cousin)
Jenny Longuet (cousin)
Anton Philips (second cousin)
Gerard Philips (second cousin)

Sir Henry Herbert Juta (12 August 1857 – 16 May 1930) was a South African judge who served as Speaker of the Cape House of Assembly, Judge President of the Cape Provincial Division and judge of the South African Appellate Division. [1]

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Early life and education

Juta attended the South African College in Cape Town from 1868 to 1874, where he matriculated with distinction. He obtained a BA degree in 1876 and then went to the University of London, gaining a LLB with honours. He became a member of the Inner Temple in January 1880. [2]

Career

Juta returned to Cape Town and was admitted to the bar on 14 September 1880. He had a busy practice and also served as an examiner for the University of the Cape of Good Hope. In 1892 he served as an acting judge in Griqualand West and in 1893 he entered politics. [2]

He served as MLA for Oudtshoorn from 1893 to 1898, and briefly in 1894, as Attorney General for the second government of Prime Minister Cecil Rhodes. He also took silk in 1893 and in 1896 became speaker of the legislative assembly. He was knighted in the 1897 Diamond Jubilee Honours. [3] In 1899 he became MLA for Port Elizabeth, a constituency he represented until 1907.

In late 1902 he visited the United Kingdom with his family. [4] Juta was appointed Judge President of the Cape Provincial Division in September 1914 and in 1920 he was appointed Judge of the Appeal Court. He resigned in 1923 and settled with his wife in Europe. [2]

Family

Juta was born in South Africa to Jan Carel Juta and Louise Marx and baptised into the Dutch Reformed Church. [5] He was a nephew of Karl Marx. His parents together founded the publishing house Juta and Company. [6]

In 1883, he married Helen Lena Tait and they had four daughters and one son. [7] The eldest daughter, Helen (1886–1952), married the English composer John David Davis in 1919 [ citation needed ] and their son Jan married Alice Ford Huntington, daughter of American tennis player Bob Huntington and sister of Helen Dinsmore Huntington of the Huntington family.

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References

  1. ↑ Zimmermann, Reinhard; Visser, Daniel (1996). Southern Cross: Civil Law and Common Law in South Africa. Cape Town: Juta.
  2. 1 2 3 de Kock, W. J. (1968). Dictionary of South African biography: Vol I. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council. pp. 418–419.
  3. ↑ Who Was Who Volume III (1929-1940). Bloomsbury. ISBN   9781408193372.
  4. ↑ "Court Circular". The Times. No. 36882. London. 25 September 1902. p. 7.
  5. ↑ South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers, 1660-1970
  6. ↑ Juta Publishing into the Nineties. 1853–1990. 137 Years of publishing. Kapstadt 1990 (mit Bildern von J. C. Juta und Louise Juta).
  7. ↑ De Kock, Wessel (2007). The house of Juta. Cape Town, South Africa: Juta. p. 95. ISBN   978-0-620-31341-4. OCLC   212406551.


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