Henry Juta

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]

The Right Honourable Sir

Henry Herbert Juta

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Judge of the Appellate Division of South Africa
In office
1920–1923
Prime MinisterJan Smuts
Judge President of the Cape Provincial Division
In office
1914–1920
Speaker of the Cape House of Assembly
In office
1896–1898
Prime MinisterGordon Sprigg
Personal details
Born12 August 1857
Cape Town
Died16 May 1930
NationalitySouth African
RelationsKarl 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)
ParentsJan Carel Juta
Louise Marx

He also served as MLA for Oudtshoorn (1893-98), and briefly in 1894 as Attorney General for the second government of Prime Minister Cecil Rhodes. He was knighted in the 1897 Diamond Jubilee Honours.[2]

In late 1902 he visited the United Kingdom with his family.[3]

Family

Juta was born in South Africa to Jan Carel Juta and Louise Marx and baptised into the Dutch Reformed Church.[4] He was a nephew of Karl Marx. His parents together founded the publishing house Juta and Company. [5]

References
  1. Zimmermann, Reinhard; Visser, Daniel (1996). Southern Cross: Civil Law and Common Law in South Africa. Cape Town: Juta.
  2. Who Was Who Volume III (1929-1940). Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781408193372.
  3. "Court Circular". The Times (36882). London. 25 September 1902. p. 7.
  4. South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers, 1660-1970
  5. Juta Publishing into the Nineties. 1853–1990. 137 Years of publishing. Kapstadt 1990 (mit Bildern von J. C. Juta und Louise Juta).


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