Harry Trusted

{{infobox officeholder

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| honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|QC}}

|image = Harry Herbert Trusted.jpg

| name = Sir Harry Herbert Trusted

| office = Attorney General of the Leeward Islands

| term_start = 1927

| term_end = 1929

| birth_date = 27 June 1888

| birth_place = Birmingham, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1985|12|8|1888|6|27}}

| death_place = Surrey, England

| spouse = {{marriage|Mary Warmington|1911|end=d|1983}}

| father = Rev. Wilson Trusted

| alma_mater = Ellesmere College
Trinity Hall, Cambridge

| relatives = Sir Marshall Warmington (Father-in-law)

| occupation = Attorney-General

}}

Sir Harry Herbert Trusted {{post-nominals|country=GBR|QC}} (27 June 1888 – 8 December 1985) was a British colonial Attorney-General and Chief Justice.{{cite news |title= Obituary: Sir Harry Trusted |work=The Times |date= 11 December 1985|page= 16}}

Education

Trusted was educated at Ellesmere College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He studied law at the Inner Temple, but joined the Middle Temple on 31 January 1911, withdrawing Middle Temple in 1913.Sturgess, H.A.C. (1949). Register of Admissions to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. Butterworth & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.: Temple Bar. Volume III, p.799

Career

Trusted was called to the bar in 1911 at Inner Temple and served overseas in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry during the First World War (1914–1918).{{cite web|url= http://www.mocavo.co.uk/Whos-Who-Men-and-Women-of-the-Time-1935/107381/3418|title= Men and Woman of our time, 1935|publisher= Mocavo|accessdate= 18 November 2015|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150923060402/http://www.mocavo.co.uk/Whos-Who-Men-and-Women-of-the-Time-1935/107381/3418|archive-date= 23 September 2015|url-status= dead}}

In 1925 he was appointed a Puisne Judge in the Leeward Islands Supreme Court, becoming Attorney-General in 1927. In 1929 he was transferred to be Attorney-General of Cyprus.

From 1932 to 1936 he served as Attorney-General of the British Mandate for Palestine, then replaced Michael McDonnell as Chief Justice in 1936.{{cite web|url=http://www.jta.org/1936/10/27/archive/h-h-trusted-named-chief-justice-of-palestine|title= H.h. Trusted Named Chief Justice of Palestine|date= 27 October 1936|publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|accessdate= 18 November 2015}} As Chief Justice he is remembered for granting additional powers to the Bedouin Tribal Courts on condition they abandoned the practice of ordeal by fire (Bish'a).{{cite book|title=Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine|first= Assaf|last = Likhovski|page=41}} In January 1938, he presided over the murder trial of Mordechai Schwarcz, a Jewish Palestine Police Force officer who had murdered an Arab police officer. He found Schwarcz guilty of murder and sentenced him to death by hanging. Schwarcz was executed later that year, becoming the only Jew to be executed for murdering an Arab during the Mandate era.{{Cite web |title=Late Palestine News 7 Jewish Policemen Slain in Ambush on Mt, Carmel |url=https://www.jta.org/archive/late-palestine-news-7-jewish-policemen-slain-in-ambush-on-mt-carmel |access-date=2025-05-25 |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |language=en-US}}

In 1941 he moved to be Chief Justice of the Federated Malay States, which lasted until 1946. For much of that time he was a Prisoner of War of the invading Japanese army.{{cite web|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205059088|title= HIGH BRITISH OFFICERS ARRIVE IN CHUNGKING FROM JAPANESE PRISON CAMPS, CHINA, 28 AUGUST 1945|publisher= Imperial War Museums|accessdate = 18 November 2015}}

In 1948 he chaired a Commission of Inquiry into the anti-Jewish riots in the British Protectorate of Aden.{{cite web| url=http://www.jta.org/1948/02/20/archive/britain-to-launch-inquiry-into-massacre-of-jews-in-aden-sends-special-commission|title= Britain to Launch Inquiry into Massacre of Jews in Aden; Sends Special Commission|date= 20 February 1948|publisher= JTA|accessdate = 18 November 2015}}

Personal life

Trusted was born in Birmingham, the only son of the Rev. Wilson Trusted of Salisbury in 1888.{{cite book|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-169900|title=Trusted, Sir Harry Herbert|date=1 December 2007|publisher=ukwhoswho|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U169900|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|url-access=subscription}}

He had married Mary Warmington, daughter of Sir Marshall Warmington, 1st Baronet. They had 2 sons and 3 daughters. His son John Marshall Trusted died at 21.

He died in Surrey in 1985.