Background
LAURENCE, Perceval Maitland was born on April 20, 1854. Son of Reverend Perceval Laurence, Rector of Walesby, Lincolnshire.
- Photos
- Works
src="/web/img/loading.gif" data-src="/web/show-photo.jpg?id=1463985&cache=false" alt="Other photo of Perceval Maitland LAURENCE" class="gallery__img" height="167"
Other photo of Perceval Maitland LAURENCE
src="/web/img/loading.gif" data-src="/web/show-photo.jpg?id=1463986&cache=false" alt="Other photo of Perceval Maitland LAURENCE" class="gallery__img" height="167"
Other photo of Perceval Maitland LAURENCE
src="/web/img/loading.gif" data-src="/web/show-photo.jpg?id=1463987&cache=false" alt="Other photo of Perceval Maitland LAURENCE" class="gallery__img" height="167"
Other photo of Perceval Maitland LAURENCE
src="/web/img/loading.gif" data-src="/web/show-photo.jpg?id=1463988&cache=false" alt="Other photo of Perceval Maitland LAURENCE" class="gallery__img" height="167"
Other photo of Perceval Maitland LAURENCE
-
data-src="/web/show-photo.jpg?id=1463985&cache=false" src="" alt="" class="gallery-slider__content__img" height=""
-
data-src="/web/show-photo.jpg?id=1463986&cache=false" src="" alt="" class="gallery-slider__content__img" height=""
-
data-src="/web/show-photo.jpg?id=1463987&cache=false" src="" alt="" class="gallery-slider__content__img" height=""
-
data-src="/web/show-photo.jpg?id=1463988&cache=false" src="" alt="" class="gallery-slider__content__img" height=""
- Photos
- Works
Perceval Maitland LAURENCE
Edit ProfileEducation
Private tuition; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Bachelor of Arts 1st class Classical Tripos, 1876. Master of Laws 1879; Doctor of Laws 1884.
Career
Fellow, 1876). President of Cambridge Union, 1874. Tancred Student of Lincoln’s Inn, 1875. Classical Tutor of Cavendish College, 1876.
Acted as Lecturer and Examiner at Corpus Christi College.
Senior Whewell Scholar in Cambridge University, 1877. Member’s Prizeman (English Essay), 1877.
Yorke Prizeman, 1878. Chancellor’s gold medallist for Legal Studies, 1879.
Barrister Lincoln’s Inn, 1878.
Supreme Court, Cape Colony, 1880. Examiner in Literature at Cape University, 1881, 1886-1889, 1892. In Law, 1901-1906, 1908.
Chairman Kimberley Committee for Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886.
Chairman Kimberley Public Library, 1883 - 1901. Chairman War Losses Inquiry Commission, 1905-1907.
Member Transvaal Constituencies Delimitation Commission, 1906. Chairman Constituencies Delimitation Commission for Third Parliament and Provincial Councils, 1909-1910.
Assigned to High Court of Griqualand, of which appointed Acting Judge President, 1887.
Judge President, 1888-1907. Judge of Supreme Court of Cape Colony, 1882-1910. Judge of-Supreme Court of South Africa (Cape Division) since 1910.
Membership
Clubs: Oxford and Cambridge, Reform, Savile. City, Cape Town.
Connections
-
Born
-
Nationality
British