James Arthur Van Langenberg KC (2 March 1866 – 30 April 1915) was the 5th Solicitor General of Ceylon. James Arthur Van Langenberg was born in Colombo on 2 March 1866, the second son of James Arthur Van Langenberg (1839–1886) Knight Commander of the Papal

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, advocate and member of the

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, and Maria Susan née Toussaint (1839–1901). He matriculated at

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in 1886, and was

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at the

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in 1888. On 16 May 1892 he married Francis Ethel Vander Straaten (1867–1948) in St. Mary's Church,

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. They had ten children: Ethel (b.1893), Lillian Eleanor (b.1894), Edith Frances Agatha (b.1895), Beatrix (b.1898), James William (b.1900), Henry (b.1901), Bertha (b.1903), Cyril (b.1906), Arthur (b.1909) and Hugh Patrick (b.1911). He was appointed Solicitor General of Ceylon in 1912, succeeding James Cecil Walter Pereira, and held the office until 1915. He was succeeded by

Thomas Garvin Sir Thomas Forrest Garvin II, KC (8 August 1881 – 19 June 1940) was a Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) judge and lawyer. He was a judge of the Supreme Court of Ceylon and Solicitor General of Ceylon. Born to Dr Thomas Forrest Garvin and Grace Louisa ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Van Langenberg, James V 1866 births 1915 deaths Members of the Legislative Council of Ceylon People from British Ceylon Alumni of Merton College, Oxford