Men-at-the-Bar/De Villiers, Sir John Henry

by Joseph Foster

De Villiers, Sir John Henry, K.C.M.G., 1882, chief justice of Cape of Good Hope and president of the legislative council of that colony since 1874, attorney-general 1872-4, knighted 4 Oct., 1877, a student of the Inner Temple 5 June, 1863 (then aged 20), called to the bar 17 Nov., 1865 (2nd son of Charles O. de Villiers, Esq., of the Paarl, Cape of Good Hope); born 9 June, 1843; married 18 May, 1871, Aletta, dau. of J. P. Jordan, Esq., of Worcester (see Foster's Baronetage).

Wynberg House, Cape Town, South Africa.