Brigadier Sir Hubert James Marlowe Flaxman,

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(22 July 1893 – 23 June 1976) was a British colonial administrator and judge.

Biography

Flaxman was born on 22 July 1893, the son of James and Florence Flaxman. He was educated at Drapers' Schools, Purley and in

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in Switzerland. He served in the

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during the

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from 1914 to 1921. He became a political officer in Mesopotamia in 1918. He then joined Sudan Civil Service in 1924, first as District Commissioner; then as District Judge in 1926 and Judge of the High Court in 1933. He was called to the English bar at the

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in 1934. In 1940 he was appointed Chief Justice of the Sudan, serving until 1944. He then served with the British Army from 1944 to 1949, reaching the rank of Brigadier, and was

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. In 1949 he became the British Judge on the Joint Court in the New Hebrides. From 1950 to 1955 he was Resident Commissioners of the New Hebrides. He was acting Attorney-General of Gibraltar from October to December 1955, when he was appointed

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. He retired in September 1965. Flaxman was appointed to the Egyptian

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(4th Class) in 1934, a CMG in 1954. He was knighted in 1962.

Family

Flaxman Muriel Kathleen Bateman (died 1961); they had a son. He then married secondly in 1961, Vivien Aderna Barton; she died in 2016.

References

* ''The Times'', 26 June 1976 * ''Who's Who'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Flaxman, Hubert 1893 births 1976 deaths Knights Bachelor British Army brigadiers British Army personnel of World War I British Army personnel of World War II British colonial governors and administrators in Europe British colonial governors and administrators in Oceania Attorneys-General of Gibraltar Resident Commissioners of the New Hebrides (United Kingdom) British expatriate judges Chief justices of Gibraltar Members of the Middle Temple British expatriates in Sudan Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George 20th-century Gibraltarian judges British expatriates in Iraq