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About Judge William Musgrove Hopley
The following information from Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900:
William Musgrove Hopley
Admitted (age 22) at Pembroke College on 6 August 1874.
Elder son of Frederick Hurlingh [land-surveyor], of Burghersdorp, Cape Colony.
Born, 1853] at Cradock, Cape Colony.
Schools, St Andrew's College, Grahamstown, and Diocesan College, Rondesbosch.
Matriculated Michaelmas 1874; Scholar; (Law Trip., 1st Class, 1877); B.A. 1878; M.A. and LL.M. 1915.
Admitted at the Inner Temple 23 Jan 1875.
Called to the Bar 26 Jan 1878.
Practised before the Supreme Court of the Cape of Good Hope until 1883; at Kimberley, 1883.
Crown Prosecutor for Griqualand West, 1885-1892.
Q.C., 1890.
Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court, Cape Colony, 1892.
On staff of Field Marshal Lord Roberts as legal adviser at Bloemfontein, 1900;
Supreme Court, Cape Town, temporarily 1904, and permanently, 1907; retired.
Senior Judge, Southern Rhodesia, 1914.
Died 1 Mar 1919.
(Inns of Court; Foster, Men at the Bar; Law Lists; Who was Who, 1916-28.)
Judge William Musgrove Hopley's Timeline
1853 |
June 13, 1853
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Cradock, Cape Colony, South Africa
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1883 |
August 27, 1883
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Grahamstown, Western District, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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1891 |
September 9, 1891
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Kimberley, South Africa
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1919 |
March 10, 1919
Age 65
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Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
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