Fiennes Barrett-Lennard

Sir Fiennes Cecil Arthur Barrett-Lennard (2 April 1880 – 26 January 1963) was a British colonial judge and soldier.^[1][2]

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.^[3] He was subsequently a judge in the Straits Settlement.^[4] He was appointed Chief Justice of Jamaica in 1925 and was knighted the following year.^[5]

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.^[6] He retired in 1932^[7] and after retiring, he claimed his retirement was forced on him by ill health that resulted from having been poisoned.^[8]

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.^[9]