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Albert van der Sandt Centlivres

Albert van der Sandt Centlivres
Student Representative Council, South African College, 1906
10th Chief Justice of South Africa
In office
1950–1957
Appointed byGideon Brand van Zyl
Preceded byErnest Frederick Watermeyer
Succeeded byHenry Allan Fagan
Judge of Appeal of the Supreme Court of South Africa
In office
1939–1950
Appointed bySir Patrick Duncan
Judge of the Cape Provincial Division
In office
1935–1939
Appointed byThe Earl of Clarendon
Personal details
Born13 January 1887
Cape Town, Cape Colony
Died19 September 1966
Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa
NationalitySouth African
Alma mater
OccupationJudge
ProfessionLawyer

Albert van der Sandt Centlivres (13 January 1887 – 19 September 1966),[1] was the Chief Justice of South Africa from 1950 to 1957.[2]

Biography

Centlivres was born in Newlands, Cape Town, the son of Frederick James Centlivres and Albertina de Villiers. He was educated at the South African College School, South African College (now the University of Cape Town), where he took honours in Classics, and New College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and read Law, graduating BA and BCL. He was called to the bar by the Middle Temple in 1910 and admitted as an advocate of the Cape provincial division in 1911. During the First World War, he served in South-West Africa as a private. He became a King's Counsel in 1927.[2]

In 1935 he was appointed a judge of the Cape Provincial Division, and in 1939 he became a Judge of Appeal in the Appellate Division, South Africa's highest court.[2] He was best known for his judgments during the Coloured vote constitutional crisis, in which he rebuffed the government's attempts at disenfranchising non-white voters in the Cape Province.

The painting Portrait of Albert van de Sandt Centlivres by Neville Lewis was burned by demonstrators during the Rhodes Must Fall upheaval at the University of Cape Town in February 2016.[3]

Centlivres Building

Centlivres Building, Cape Town University

Centlivres was Chancellor of the University of Cape Town from 1950 until his death in 1966.[4] The Centlivres Building on the university's upper campus is named after him. The building houses faculty for tne departments of sociology and architecture.

References

  1. ^ "In Memoriam: The Hon. A. v. d. S. Centlivres". South African Law Journal. 83: 387. 1966.
  2. ^ a b c Zimmermann, Reinhard; Visser, Daniel, eds. (1996). Southern cross: civil law and common law in South Africa. Oxford University Press. p. 126.
  3. ^ Pertsovsky, Natalie (9 June 2017). "Here is the list of art destroyed on UCT". GroundUp News. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
  4. ^ "University community called to nominate candidates for chancellor". Monday Paper. University of Cape Town. 29 March 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
Legal offices
Preceded by Chief Justice of South Africa
1950–1957
Succeeded by
Academic offices
Preceded by Chancellor of the University of Cape Town
1950–1966
Succeeded by


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