Sir Herbert Cecil Stronge, KC (3 January 1875 – 22 August 1963) was an Anglo-Irish barrister and British colonial judge.

Life and career

Stronge was born in 1875 in

Kilkee Kilkee () is a coastal town in County Clare, Ireland. It is located in the parish of Kilkee ''(formerly Kilfearagh)''. Kilkee is midway between Kilrush and Doonbeg on the N67 road and is a popular seaside resort. The horseshoe bay is pro ...

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, the son of S. E. Stronge, MA,

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, and Minnie L. Stronge. He was educated at the Falmouth School and

Trinity College, Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Univ ...

, where he took a BA and was Prizeman in Classics and English Literature. He was called to the

Irish Bar The Bar of Ireland () is the professional association of barristers for Ireland, with over 2,000 members. It is based in the Law Library, with premises in Dublin and Cork. It is governed by the General Council of the Bar of Ireland, commonly c ...

in 1900 and joined the North-East Circuit in 1901, practising in Belfast. He was appointed as a stipendiary magistrate in the Bahamas in 1911, and acted as Attorney-General of the Bahamas in 1914 and 1915. From 1917 to 1925, he was Chief Justice of the Tonga Protectorate. From 1925 to 1931, he was

Chief Justice of the Leeward Islands The chief justice of the Leeward Islands headed the Supreme Court of the Leeward Islands. The British Leeward Islands was a British colony existing between 1833 and 1960, and consisted of Antigua, Barbuda, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, ...

. From 1931 until his retirement in 1938 he was

Chief Justice of Cyprus The chief justice of Cyprus was the head of the Supreme Court of Cyprus until 1961. The administration of Cyprus was taken over by the British government, following the Russo-Turkish War, under the Cyprus Convention, Convention of 4 June 1878. C ...

. Stronge became a

King's Counsel A King's Counsel (Post-nominal letters, post-nominal initials KC) is a senior lawyer appointed by the monarch (or their Viceroy, viceregal representative) of some Commonwealth realms as a "Counsel learned in the law". When the reigning monarc ...

when he took silk in 1929, and was

knighted A knight is a person granted an honorary title of a knighthood by a head of state (including the pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church, or the country, especially in a military capacity. The concept of a knighthood ...

in 1930. Stronge died in

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in 1963.

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