Education
Born in Motueka, Myers was educated at Thorndon School and Wellington College, and gained his LL B from Canterbury College in 1897.
Born in Motueka, Myers was educated at Thorndon School and Wellington College, and gained his LL B from Canterbury College in 1897.
He was the first person of Jewish descent to hold this position. He sat on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1936. Afterwards he was admitted to the Inner Temple.
Myers went to the 1945 San Francisco conference that produced the United Nations, and participated in the drafting of the constitution of the International Court of Justice.
He resigned on 6 September 1945, but was reappointed for one year, and then resigned on 7 August 1946. Myers died in Wellington in 1950, aged 76.
He had been made King"s Counsel in 1922, Knight Commander of the Order of Street Michael and Saint George in 1930, and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Street Michael and Street George in 1937.