Sir Robert Clarkson Tredgold
(1899-1977), JudgeSitter in 1 portrait
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1957
NPG x185734
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Angus Jenkinson
01 September 2022, 12:51
1899-April 9, 1977): From a notice in the New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/1977/04/10/archives/obituary-1-no-title.html
SALISBURY, Rhodesia, April 9 (Agence France‐Presse)—Sir Robert Tredgold, former chief justice of Southern Rhodesia and of the old federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, died yesterday in Marandellas, near here, it was announced today. He was 78 years old.
Sir Robert, who held several cabinet posts in the Southern Rhodesian government between 1934 and 1943, was appointed chief justice of the country in 1943 and was knighted in 1950. He was appointed federal chief justice in 1955.
Sir Robert resigned in November 1960 in protest against the proposed Law and Order (Maintenance) Act, which is still in force in Rhodesia.
ALSO: He wrote or co-authored several books listed in the World Catalogue: https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n84011966/
Xhosa: tales of life from the African veld by Robert Tredgold( Book )
3 editions published in 1973 in English and held by 140 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Matopos by E. A Nobbs( Book )
6 editions published in 1956 in English and held by 67 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Ideas, ideologies and idolatries by Robert Tredgold( Book )
5 editions published in 1963 in English and held by 54 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Racial themes in Southern Rhodesia: the attitudes and behavior of the white population by Cyril A Rogers( Book )
5 editions published between 1962 and 1973 in English and held by 27 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Rhodesia that was my life by Robert Tredgold( Book )
12 editions published between 1968 and 1969 in English and Undetermined and held by 20 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Ideas, ideologies and idolatries. The fifth T.B. Davie memorial lecture delivered in the University of Cape Town on 5 September 1963 by Robert Tredgold( Book )
2 editions published in 1963 in English and held by 12 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Ideas, ideologies and idolatries : the fifth T. B. Davie memorial lecture delivered in the University of Cape Town on 5 September 1963 by Robert Tredgold( Book )
2 editions published in 1963 in English and held by 6 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Report of investigation into the grievances which gave rise to the strike amongst the African employees of the Rhodesia Railways and the conditions of employment incidental to such grievances and to make recommendation for the elimination of any grievance proved to be well founded by Northern Rhodesia( Book )
2 editions published in 1945 in English and held by 6 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The outlook for the Rhodesian Federation( )
1 edition published in 1962 in English and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The contribution of Quakers in a multiracial society by Robert Tredgold( Book )
3 editions published in 1954 in English and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide.
According to a review by James Murray published in the journal InternationalAffairs (Volume 45, Issue Two, April 1969, Page 372), he had a father who was a distinguished lawyer and was related to the missionary Robert Moffat. He called out 'the Spectre in the Land", which was colour prejudice fostered by ignorance and misunderstanding. This is what led in due course to his resignation as successive laws imposed more stringent controls. He was "an old-fashioned liberal". He tried to form a political national front to oppose this tendency but gained insufficient support. His autobiography was "an ode to a distant prospect of his native land".