20 Facts About Richard Feetham

Richard Feetham CMG was a lawyer, politician and judge in South Africa.

Richard Feetham was the chairman of a number of high-profile international and domestic commissions.

Richard Feetham read law in Lincoln's Inn and was called to the bar in 1899.

Richard Feetham served with the Inns of Court Rifles in the Second Boer War.

Richard Feetham was one of the young lawyers selected by Lord Milner to assist him in a policy of reconstruction following the Treaty of Vereeniging, who became known as "Milner's Kindergarten".

Richard Feetham became deputy town clerk of Johannesburg in 1902 and town clerk the following year.

Richard Feetham was, apart from other work as a commissioner, appointed "to enquire into and report upon the facts relating to the tenure by natives of their lots in the Potchefstroom native location" and after he completed this work, its findings were reported in 1906 by the Government Printer, Pretoria.

Richard Feetham was legal adviser to Lord Selborne, the High Commissioner in 1907 and a member of the Legislative Council of the Transvaal from.

Richard Feetham was awarded a CMG in 1923 for his services as legal adviser to the High Commissioner for South Africa.

Richard Feetham resigned from Parliament in 1923 to become a judge of the Transvaal Division of the Supreme Court.

In 1939, Richard Feetham became Judge of Appeal on the South Africa Court of Appeals in Bloemfontein, South Africa's "judicial capital".

Richard Feetham opposed legislation prohibiting the admission of Non-White students to White tertiary institutions.

Richard Feetham resigned from the position of Chancellor in 1961 and from the University Council two years later.

Richard Feetham served as an international and local commissioner on a number of high-profile commissions.

Richard Feetham was chairman of the Feetham Function Committee on Constitutional Reform in India.

Richard Feetham was Chairman of the Irish Boundary Commission which decided on the precise delineation of the border between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland following partition in 1921.

Richard Feetham is an English trained Barrister and a member of the South African assembly who has been through all our constitutional work since Milner's time.

In 1930, Richard Feetham was appointed by the Shanghai Municipal Council to investigate the possibility of the end of extraterritoriality in China and its effect on the Shanghai International Settlement.

Richard Feetham proposed that extraterritoriality continue at least in the International Settlement until China could form a united and pacified government with constitutional checks and balances.

Richard Feetham died on 5 November 1965 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal.