Sir Thomas Anton Bertram KC (8 February 1869 – 17 September 1937) was an English Barrister and the 22nd

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. He was appointed on 26 July 1918 succeeding

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and was Chief Justice until 1925. He was succeeded by

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Life

Bertram was born in Barnstable,

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, on 8 February 1869, the son of the Reverend R. A. Bertram, a Congregational minister. He was educated at

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. He was called to the bar in 1893 and appointed

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in July 1902. In 1907 he was appointed a

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and then Attorney-General of

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in 1911. Bertam died at his home in

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, on 17 September 1937, aged 68.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bertram, Anton Chief Justices of British Ceylon 20th-century Sri Lankan people 19th-century Sri Lankan people Sri Lankan people of British descent 19th-century British people Attorneys General of British Ceylon Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 1869 births 1937 deaths People from Barnstaple