| Sir William Arrindell | |
| Birth Date: | 1796 10, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Tortola, Virgin Islands |
| Death Place: | Demerara, British Guiana |
| Office1: | Attorney General of British Guiana |
| Term Start1: | 1845 |
| Term End1: | 1852 |
Sir William Arrindell CB (12 October 1796 – 27 December 1862) was a British judge.[1]
Born in Tortola, the Virgin Islands, he was educated in England.[2] Arrindell worked as barrister in Georgetown[3] and in 1824, he defended John Smith in his trial. Arrindell became Attorney-General of British Guiana in 1845[4] and was subsequently appointed Chief Justice of British Guiana in 1852.[5] He was created a Knight Bachelor in 1858 and was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the same year.[6]
He died at Demerara, aged 66, from the consequences of a fall from a staircase.[7] His funeral procession stretched for half a mile and was the greatest British Guiana had seen so far.[7]