Albert Ehrhardt Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
Albert F. Ehrhardt
Order:10th
Office:Attorney-General of Fiji
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
Death Date:30 August 1929 (aged 66–67)
Nationality:British
Alma Mater:Worcester College, Oxford
Occupation:Lawyer

Albert F.[1] 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.[2] 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).[3] In February 1903 he became Attorney-General of Fiji,[4] 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.[5] In his role as Attorney-General, he also served in the Executive Council and Legislative Council.[6]

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.[7]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Full Text of Yearbook. Royal Colonial Institute. 22 September 2015.
  2. Book: Foster . Joseph . Joseph Foster (genealogist) . Oxford Men and their Colleges . 1893 . . Oxford . 188.
  3. Web site: London Personal Gossip. 1 September 2015.
  4. Fiji Blue Book for the Year 1903, p112
  5. Ehrhardt was also Attorney General 1903-1914; acting for Major while Major was Acting Governor of Fiji (1910-1911).
  6. Fiji Blue Book for the Year 1903, pp80–81
  7. Book: Marcus Garvey. Marcus Garvey. 605. The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume XI: The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910–1920. 1983. Duke University Press. 0822346907. 1 September 2015.