Men-at-the-Bar/Sheriff, Robert French

by Joseph Foster

Sheriff, Robert French, Q.C. Antigua 1869, attorney-general Gibraltar since 1877, advocate and proctor in admiralty 1878, commissioner in bankruptcy 1878, acting chief justice and judge of vice-admiralty court Gibraltar 1878-9, 1881-2, attorney-general of the Leeward Islands 1874-7, acting chief justice St. Christopher and Nevis 1873-4, a student of the Inner Temple 17 Nov., 1859 (then aged 25), called to the bar 17 Nov., 1862 (eldest son of James Watson Sheriff, Esq., of Antigua); born , 1834.

Gibraltar.