1897

Sir James Rose Innes KCMG PC KC (1855 – 1942) was the Chief Justice of South Africa from 1914 to 1927 and, in the view of many, its greatest ever judge.

Before becoming a judge he was a member of the Cape Parliament, the Cape Colony's Attorney-General, and a prominent critic of Cecil John Rhodes.

His grandson was Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, a prominent opponent of the Third Reich, who was convicted in 1945 of hostility to Nazism. Innes had died in 1942 at the age of 87. He was therefore spared his grandson's execution.

210mm x 330mm (Signed Power of Attorney)
210mm x 253mm (others)

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