Ernest Frederick Watermeyer

The Rt Hon. Ernest Frederick Watermeyer, PC, KC (12 October 1880 – 18 January 1958), was the Chief Justice of South Africa from 1943 to 1950.[1]

The Right Honourable

Ernest Frederick Watermeyer

PC KC
9th Chief Justice of South Africa
In office
1943–1950
Preceded byNicolaas Jacobus de Wet
Succeeded byAlbert van der Sandt Centlivres
Judge of the Appellate Division
In office
1937–1942
Judge of the Cape Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa
In office
1922–1937
Personal details
Born(1880-10-12)12 October 1880
Graaff-Reinet, Cape Colony
Died18 January 1958(1958-01-18) (aged 77)
Hermanus, Union of South Africa
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
ProfessionKing's Counsel

Watermeyer was born in Graaff-Reinet in 1880. He was educated at Stellenbosch Gymnasium, Bath College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read Mathematics, then Law.

He was called to the bar in England by the Inner Temple in 1904 and admitted to the Cape bar in 1905. He became a King's Counsel in 1921. From 1922 to 1927 he was a judge of the Cape Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa. In 1937 he was promoted to the Supreme Court's Appellate Division. From 1943 until his retirement in 1950 he was Chief Justice of South Africa. He was sworn of the Imperial Privy Council in 1943, which entitled Chief Justice Watermeyer to the prefix 'The Right Honourable'.

References
  1. Zimmermann, Reinhard (1996). Southern Cross: Civil Law and Common Law in South Africa. Clarendon Press. p. 125.
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