Henry Rawlins Pipon Schooles
Sir Henry Rawlins Pipon Schooles (1849 – 7 December 1913) was an English lawyer who was the Attorney General of Jamaica and later Chief Justice of Gibraltar from July 1905.[1]
He was born in Malta, the eldest son of Army surgeon Henry James Schooles and his wife Catherine Semper of St Kitts.[2]
He moved to live in the West Indies, where he became Attorney General of the Leeward Islands in 1870. He was called to the bar in 1873 [3] and worked as a barrister in St Kitts, also representing Sandypoint in the St Kitts Legislative Assembly. He moved again to become Attorney-General of British Honduras from 1880 to 1883.[4]
From 1883 to 1896 he was
A few days before his death in 1913 he was invested as a Knight of Grace of the Order of the Hospital of St John Of Jerusalem.[7] He died in Farnborough, Hampshire and was survived by his wife Caroline, the daughter of Sir William Keid.
References
- ^ The London Gazette, 14 July 1905. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
- ^ "War and Peaceful Hythe". Retrieved 22 August 2019.
- ^ "Men at the Bar". Retrieved 23 August 2019.
- ^ "No. 24861". The London Gazette. 6 July 1880. p. 3804.
- ^ "No. 10750". The Edinburgh Gazette. 4 February 1896. p. 109.
- ^ "No. 11788". The Edinburgh Gazette. 22 December 1905. p. 1322.
- ^ "No. 12622". The Edinburgh Gazette. 5 December 1913. p. 1329.