Benjamin Tindall
{{short description|South African judge}}
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Benjamin Arthur Tindall KC (26 April 1879 – 3 February 1963) was a South African judge who served as Judge President of the Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa and Judge op Appeal.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SErIoCP9knIC|title=Southern Cross: Civil Law and Common Law in South Africa|author=Zimmermann, Reinhard|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1996|pages=130|isbn=9780198260875}}
Early life and education
Tindall was born in Leliefontein, a small Wesleyan mission station in the Namaqualand region of South Africa. His father, Henry Tindall, was a Wesleyan missionary, who also travelled widely in the area and became an expert on the customs and language of the Nama people.{{Cite book|last=de Kock|first=W. J.|title=Dictionary of South African biography: Vol I|publisher=Human Sciences Research Council|year=1968|location=Pretoria|pages=796}} Tindall received his schooling at the Stellenbosch Gymnasium, after which he went on to the Victoria College in Stellenbosch, where he obtained a BA in Literature and an LL.B. in 1901.{{Cite book|title=Who's who of Southern Africa 1962|publisher=Wootton & Gibson (PTY) LTD|year=1962|location=Johannesburg|pages=742}}
Career
Tindall started his working life in the Cape Civil Service and then as private secretary of Justice James Rose Innes. He joined the Cape Bar in January 1903 and a month later he joined the Pretoria Bar. He took silk in 1919 and in 1922 was appointed a judge of the Transvaal Provincial Division. Tindall was appointed Judge President of the Transvaal Division in 1937 and in 1938 he was appointed to the Appellate Division.{{Cite web|title=Supreme Court of Appeal: History|url=https://www.supremecourtofappeal.org.za/index.php/history|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-24|website=www.supremecourtofappeal.org.za|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925111323/https://www.supremecourtofappeal.org.za/index.php/history |archive-date=2020-09-25 }}
Published works
Tindall was the editor of the autobiography by the second Chief Justice of South Africa, James Rose Innes, titled:
- James Rose Innes: Chief Justice of South Africa, 1914-27: Autobiography; first published in 1949.{{Cite book|last=Rose-Innes|first=James|editor-first=B. A.|editor-last=Tindall|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-SENAQAAIAAJ|title=James Rose Innes: Chief Justice of South Africa, 1914-27 : Autobiography|date=1949|publisher=Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press|language=en}}
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