Albert Ehrhardt

{{Short description|British colonial judge}}

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|name = Albert F. Ehrhardt

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|order = 10th

|office = Attorney-General of Fiji

|monarch = Edward VII
George V

|governor = Sir Henry Jackson
Sir Everard im Thurn
Sir Charles Major (acting)
Sir Francis May
Sir Ernest Sweet-Escott

|term_start = May 1903

|term_end = 1914

|predecessor = Henry Edward Pollock

|successor = Alfred Karney Young

|order1 = Acting

|office1 = Chief Judicial Commissioner for the Western Pacific

|monarch1 = George V

|governor1 = Sir Charles Major (acting)

|term_start1 = 1910

|term_end1 = 21 February 1911

|predecessor1 = Sir Charles Major

|successor1 = Sir Charles Major

|order2 = Acting

|office2 = Chief Justice of Fiji

|monarch2 = George V

|governor2 = Sir Charles Major (acting)

|term_start2 = 1910

|term_end2 = 21 February 1911

|predecessor2 = Sir Charles Major

|successor2 = Sir Charles Major

|birth_date = 1862

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|death_date = 30 August 1929 (aged 66–67)

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Albert F.{{cite web|title=Full Text of Yearbook|url=https://archive.org/stream/1912yearbook00royauoft/1912yearbook00royauoft_djvu.txt|website=Royal Colonial Institute|access-date=22 September 2015}} Erhardt (1862 – 30 August 1929) was a British lawyer, judge, and colonial administrator.

Erhardt graduated from Worcester College, Oxford in 1885 with a degree in Classics.{{cite book |editor1-last=Foster |editor1-first=Joseph |editor1-link=Joseph Foster (genealogist) |title=Oxford Men and their Colleges |date=1893 |publisher=University of Oxford |location=Oxford |page=188}} He began practicing Law in 1889, before joining the colonial service in 1896 as District Commissioner of Lagos, now in Nigeria. He went on to become Resident of Ibadan, as well as Attorney-General and Treasurer of Lagos (succeeding F. C. Fuller, in 1902).{{cite web|title=London Personal Gossip|work=Advertiser |date=30 March 1903 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4933499|access-date=1 September 2015}} In February 1903 he became Attorney-General of Fiji,Fiji Blue Book for the Year 1903, p112 serving until 1914. During this period he also filled in for Sir Charles Major, the Chief Justice of Fiji and Chief Judicial Commissioner for the Western Pacific, from 1910 to 1911, while Major was acting in an interim capacity as Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific.Ehrhardt was also Attorney General 1903-1914; acting for Major while Major was Acting Governor of Fiji (1910-1911). {{harv|Lavaka|1981|pp=148}} In his role as Attorney-General, he also served in the Executive Council and Legislative Council.Fiji Blue Book for the Year 1903, pp80–81

In 1914, he returned to Africa as a judge of the British East Africa Protectorate. His final post, in 1920, was as a temporary assistant legal adviser in the Colonial Office.{{cite book|author1=Marcus Garvey|authorlink1=Marcus Garvey|page=605|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EVwMJlhJXbMC&q=%22Albert+Ehrhardt%22+%2B+%22Fiji%22&pg=PA605|title=The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume XI: The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910–1920|year=1983|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=0822346907|access-date=1 September 2015}}

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{{s-bef| before= Henry Edward Pollock}}

{{s-ttl| title=Attorney-General of Fiji | years=1903-1914}}

{{s-aft| after=Alfred Karney Young}}

{{s-bef|rows=2| before=Sir Charles Major}}

{{s-ttl| title=Acting
Chief Judicial Commissioner for the Western Pacific | years=1903-1914}}

{{s-aft|rows=2| after=Sir Charles Major}}

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{{s-ttl| title=Acting
Chief Justice of Fiji | years=1903-1914}}

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