James Rose Innes

Sir James Rose Innes, KCMG PC was the Chief Justice of South Africa from 1914 to 1927 and, in the view of many, its greatest ever judge. Before becoming a judge he was a member of the Cape Parliament.

Innes was born in Grahamstown in 1855. His father was James Rose Innes CMG, the Cape Colonys UnderSecretary for Native Affairs, whose own father had emigrated to the Cape from Scotland in 1822 and become its first SuperintendentGeneral of Education. His mother was Mary Anne Fleischer, sisterinlaw to Gordon Sprigg and granddaughter to Robert Hart of Glen Avon, the founder of Somerset East, who had landed at the Cape as a member of the British expeditionary force in 1795. Though always sanguine about maintaining imperial ties, Innes was proud of his deep roots at the Cape and considered himself as much a South African as its Dutchspeaking residents

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