Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Benjamin Tindall | |
Honorific-Suffix: | KC |
Office: | Judge of the Appellate Division |
Term Start: | 1938 |
Term End: | 1949 |
Office1: | Judge President of the Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa |
Term Start1: | 1937 |
Term End1: | 1938 |
Predecessor1: | Daniël de Waal |
Successor1: | Leopold Greenberg |
Office2: | Judge of the Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa |
Term Start2: | 1922 |
Term End2: | 1937 |
Birthname: | Benjamin Arthur Tindall |
Birth Date: | 1879 4, df=y |
Birth Place: | Leliefontein, Cape Colony |
Death Place: | Johannesburg, South Africa |
Alma Mater: | Victoria College |
Profession: | Advocate |
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.[1]
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.[2] 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.[3]
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.[4]
Tindall was the editor of the autobiography by the second Chief Justice of South Africa, James Rose Innes, titled: