Sir Fiennes Cecil Arthur Barrett-Lennard (2 April 1880 – 26 January 1963) was a British colonial judge and soldier.‘BARRETT-LENNARD, Sir Fiennes Cecil Arthur’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 19 June 2013The Times, Monday, 28 Jan 1963; pg. 12; Issue 55610; col C Sir Fiennes Barrett-Lennard
Family Barrett-Lennard was the son of Captain Thomas George Barrett-Lennard (great-grandson of Sir Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 1st Baronet) and Edith Mackenzie. He married Winifrede Mignon Berlyn in 1916. They had one son, Hugh, who subsequently inherited the Barrett-Lennard baronetcy.
Career Barret-Lennard was appointed as one of the Puisne Judges of the Supreme Court of the Gold Coast (later Ghana) in 1913.Chelmsford Chronicle, 8 August 1913 He was subsequently a judge in the Straits Settlement.Profile, The Straits Times, 25 September 1932. He was appointed Chief Justice of Jamaica in 1925 and was knighted the following year.The Singapore Free Press, 17 October 1932
As Chief Justice, in 1929, he ordered the confiscation of the property of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) which had been founded by black activist, Marcus Garvey.Article in Jamaican Journal He retired in 1932Western Daily Press, 9 August 1932 and after retiring, he claimed his retirement was forced on him by ill health that resulted from having been poisoned.The Straits Times, 4 October 1932.
He returned to London, becoming a lecturer at Birkbeck College and wrote a paper on colonial law published in the Transactions of the Grotius Society.Some aspects of colonial law, jstor.org. Accessed 24 December 2022.
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