Saul Solomon (judge)
{{short description|South African judge}}
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|office1 = Judge of the Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court
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|birth_place = Sea Point, Cape Town, Cape Colony
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|death_place = St James, Cape Town, South Africa
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|spouse = Gertrude Mary Thompson (1903–1904);
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|alma_mater = Lincoln College, Oxford
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Hon. Saul Solomon QC (1875–1960), styled Mr Justice Solomon, was a judge in the Supreme Court of South Africa.
Biography
Solomon was born in Sea Point, Cape Town, on 9 April 1875. His mother was Georgiana Solomon who was a teacher and later a suffragette.Elizabeth van Heyningen, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/56252 "Solomon, Georgiana Margaret (1844–1933)"], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2006. Retrieved 17 November 2017. His father was Saul Solomon, the influential liberal politician of the Cape Colony. Saul Solomon was educated at Bedford School and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he was a scholar. His sister Daisy Solomon was also a suffragette, and 'posted' as a letter to the British Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street in 1909.{{Cite book|last=Crawford|first=Elizabeth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a2EK9P7-ZMsC&pg=PA643|title=The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866–1928|date=2003-09-02|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-43402-1|language=en}}
Solomon was called to the English Bar by Lincoln's Inn, in 1900, appointed as King's Counsel, in 1919, and as a judge in the Supreme Court of South Africa, between 1927 and 1945.{{cite web|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U243149/SOLOMON_Saul?index=1&results=QuicksearchResults&query=0|title=Who's Who}}
Mr Justice Solomon died in St James, Cape Town, on 10 December 1960.Obituary, Cape Times, 16 December 1960
Family
Solomon married first at St. Saviour′s Church, Claremont, Cape Town, on 8 January 1903, to Gertrude Mary Thompson (d 1904), daughter of Canon and Mrs Thompson of Aldeburgh Vicarage, Suffolk.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Marriages |date=17 January 1903 |page=1 |issue=36980}} His first wife died the following year, and in 1910 he married secondly to Wilding Robertson. They had two sons.
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Category:People educated at Bedford School
Category:Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford
Category:20th-century King's Counsel
Category:Members of Lincoln's Inn
Category:People from Cape Town
Category:South African Queen's Counsel
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