The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Berkeley, Hon. Henry Spencer Hardtman

1349962The Dictionary of Australasian Biography — Berkeley, Hon. Henry Spencer HardtmanPhilip Mennell

Berkeley, Hon. Henry Spencer Hardtman, third son of Thomas Berkeley Hardtman Berkeley, of St. Kitts, was born on Sept. 3rd, 1851, and called to the bar at the Inner Temple in June 1873. Having been admitted to the bar of the Leeward Islands in the following July, he filled various legal and official posts there until 1885, when he was appointed Attorney-General of Fiji, and in 1889 Chief Justice and Judicial Commissioner for the Western Pacific.