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Sir William Henry Hyndman Jones (9 August 184720 August 1926) was a British colonial judge and administrator.
William Henry Hyndman Jones was born on 9 August 1847 in Liverpool.[1] [2] He attended Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge,[3] was admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 21 November 1870, and was called to the bar of Lincoln's Inn on 3 July 1878.[1] [2]
In 1880, two years after his call to the bar, he went to Barbados to review the operations of its police force.[3] [4] One year later, he became an acting judge of the Barbados Court of Appeal.[3] In 1883, he was the chief justice of both Saint Lucia and Tobago, as well as the attorney general and a member of the executive council of either or both colonies.[3] He held various judicial and administrative positions in Jamaica from 1887 to 1896.[3]
Hyndman Jones was sent to the Straits Settlements in 1896.[3] He became the acting judicial commissioner of the Federated Malay States in 1903 and chief judicial commissioner effective 1 January 1906.[3] In August 1906, he became the chief justice of the Straits Settlements.[3] He retired in 1914.[4]
He was appointed a knight bachelor in 1906.[2] [5]
Hyndman Jones died on 20 August 1926 in Bournemouth, England.[2] [6]