Sir Harry Herbert Trusted (27 June 1888 – 8 December 1985) was a British colonial

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and Chief Justice.

Education

Trusted was educated at

Ellesmere College (''Striving for one's country'') , established = 1879 , song = ''Jerusalem'' , type = Public schoolIndependent schoolBoarding schoolDay School , religious_affiliation = Church of England , president = , head_label ...

and

Trinity Hall, Cambridge Trinity Hall (formally The College or Hall of the Holy Trinity in the University of Cambridge) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is the fifth-oldest surviving college of the university, having been founded in 1350 by ...

. He studied law at the

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, but joined the

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on 31 January 1911, withdrawing Middle Temple in 1913.

Career

Trusted was

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in 1911 at Inner Temple and served overseas in the

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during the First World War (1914–1918). In 1925 he was appointed a Puisne Judge in the

Leeward Islands french: Îles-Sous-le-Vent , image_name = , image_caption = ''Political'' Leeward Islands. Clockwise: Antigua and Barbuda, Guadeloupe, Saint kitts and Nevis. , image_alt = , locator_map = , location = Caribbean Sea North Atlantic Ocean , co ...

Supreme Court, becoming

in 1927. In 1929 he was transferred to be Attorney-General of Cyprus. From 1932 to 1936 he served as Attorney-General of the

British Mandate for Palestine The Mandate for Palestine was a League of Nations mandate for British administration of the territories of Mandatory Palestine, Palestine and Emirate of Transjordan, Transjordan, both of which had been conceded by the Ottoman Empire following ...

, then replaced

Michael McDonnell Sir Michael Francis Joseph McDonnell (1882–1956) was Chief Justice of Palestine between 1927 and 1936. He had previously been a colonial civil servant and Acting Chief Justice of Sierra Leone. Education and career Born in London to an I ...

as Chief Justice in 1936. As Chief Justice he is remembered for granting additional powers to the Bedouin Tribal Courts on condition they abandoned the practice of ordeal by fire (Bish'a). In 1941 he moved to be Chief Justice of the Federated Malay States, which lasted until 1946. For much of that time he was a Prisoner of War of the invading Japanese army. In 1948 he chaired a Commission of Inquiry into the anti-Jewish riots in the British Protectorate of Aden.

Personal life

Trusted was born in

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, the only son of the Rev. Wilson Trusted of Salisbury in 1888. He had married Mary Warmington, daughter of Sir Marshall Warmington, 1st Baronet. They had 2 sons and 3 daughters. His son John Marshall Trusted died at 21. He died in

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in 1985.

Honour

Trusted was knighted in 1938.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Trusted, Harry Herbert 1888 births 1985 deaths People from Birmingham, West Midlands People educated at Ellesmere College Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Members of the Inner Temple British Cyprus people Attorneys General of the Leeward Islands Chief justices 20th-century King's Counsel Knights Bachelor Mandatory Palestine judges Federated Malay States judges British Leeward Islands judges British World War II prisoners of war World War II civilian prisoners held by Japan Attorneys-General of British Cyprus Attorneys-General of Mandatory Palestine British Army personnel of World War I Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry officers