Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Saul Solomon | |
Honorific-Suffix: | QC |
Office1: | Judge of the Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court |
Term Start1: | 1927 |
Term End1: | 1945 |
Birth Date: | 9 April 1875 |
Birth Place: | Sea Point, Cape Town, Cape Colony |
Death Place: | St James, Cape Town, South Africa |
Nationality: | South African |
Spouse: | Gertrude Mary Thompson (1903–1904); Wilding Robertson (from 1910) |
Children: | 2 |
Mother: | Georgiana Solomon |
Father: | Saul Solomon |
Alma Mater: | Lincoln College, Oxford |
Profession: | Advocate |
Hon. Saul Solomon QC (1875–1960), styled Mr Justice Solomon, was a judge in the Supreme Court of South Africa.
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.[1] 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.[2]
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.[3]
Mr Justice Solomon died in St James, Cape Town, on 10 December 1960.[4]
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.[5] His first wife died the following year, and in 1910 he married secondly to Wilding Robertson. They had two sons.