Early life and career Sidney Shippard
caricature showing shippard (bald beard) , r.w. limner murray tripping lieutenant governor of griqualand west, major william owen lanyon
shippard eldest son of captain william shippard, 29th regiment (son of rear admiral alexander shippard), , elizabeth lydia peters (daughter of captain joseph peters). educated @ king s college school , oxford. taking degree in 1863, called bar member of inner temple in 1867.
he entered upon long career in south africa. attorney-general of griqualand west 1873 until 1877, when made acting recorder of high court of griqualand. next year, after clashes new governor henry bartle frere , lieutenant governor of griqualand west sir william owen lanyon, retired position.
from 1880 1885 sat judge of supreme court of cape colony; , british commissioner on anglo-german commission in 1884-1885 settling claims of british subjects @ lüderitz bay (german: lüderitzbucht) , other parts of south-west coast.
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