Honorific-Prefix: | Sir |
Thomas Anton Bertram | |
Office: | 22nd Chief Justice of Ceylon |
Appointer: | John Anderson |
Term Start: | 26 July 1918 |
Term End: | 1925 |
Predecessor: | Alexander Wood Renton |
Successor: | Charles Ernest St. John Branch |
Order2: | 5th |
Office2: | Attorney General of Ceylon |
Term Start2: | 19 May 1911 |
Term End2: | 1918 |
Predecessor2: | Alfred Lascelles |
Successor2: | Henry Gollan |
Birth Date: | 8 February 1869 |
Birth Place: | Barnstable, Devon, England |
Death Place: | Canterbury, Kent, England |
Alma Mater: | University of Cambridge |
Sir Thomas Anton Bertram KC (8 February 1869 – 17 September 1937) was an English Barrister and the 22nd Chief Justice of Ceylon. He was appointed on 26 July 1918 succeeding Alexander Wood Renton and was Chief Justice until 1925. He was succeeded by Charles Ernest St. John Branch.[1]
Bertram was born in Barnstable, Devon, on 8 February 1869, the son of the Reverend R. A. Bertram, a Congregational minister. He was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He was called to the bar in 1893 and appointed Attorney-General of The Bahamas in July 1902.[2] In 1907 he was appointed a Puisne Judge in Cyprus and then Attorney-General of Ceylon in 1911.
Bertram died at his home in Canterbury, Kent, on 17 September 1937, aged 68.[3]