James Henry Jarrett, KC (31 March 1895 – 7 April 1943) was a British colonial administrator and judge. He was

Chief Justice of the Windward and 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, S ...

from 1940 until his death.

Biography

The son of Henry and Caroline Mary Jarrett, Jarrett was educated at

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before being

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. After service in the

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from 1914 to 1919, he was appointed an Assistant District Commissioner in

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in 1919. He was seconded to the Judicial Department as a Magistrate in 1922, was appointed a Magistrate in 1924, became Assistant Attorney-General in 1926, and Crown Counsel in 1927. He was transferred to

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in 1929 as

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, and was Acting Administrator and Acting Chief Justice for St Vincent in 1930 and 1931. Appointed Attorney-General of the Bahamas in 1933, he was acting Chief Justice there in 1934, and Colonial Secretary from 1935 to 1940. He was Deputy Governor in 1935 and acting Governor on several occasions between 1936 and 1939. He was also appointed a

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for the Bahamas. He was appointed

in 1940, and was a member of the West Indian Court of Appeal. He died in St George's, Grenada. He married Ida Alexandria Dutfield in 1924; they had a son and a daughter.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jarrett, James Henry 1895 births 1943 deaths Chief justices of the Leeward Islands People educated at Lancing College British military personnel of World War I British expatriates in the British West Indies Honourable Artillery Company 20th-century King's Counsel