Men-at-the-Bar/Williams, (Hon.) Joshua Strange

by Joseph Foster

Williams, (Hon.) Joshua Strange, LL.M., Trin. Coll., Camb., 1860, M.A. 1870, chancellor's medallist for legal studies 1859, puisne judge Otago, New Zealand, since 1875, district land registrar of Canterbury district New Zealand 1871-2, registrar-general of land New Zealand 1872-5, educated at Harrow, a student of Lincoln's Inn 8 Jan., 1857 (then aged 19), called to the bar 17 Nov., 1859 (eldest son of late Joshua Williams, of Lincoln's Inn, a master of the bench); born , 1837; married 1st, 26 July, 1864, Caroline Helen, 4th dau. of late Thomas Sanctuary, Esq., of Horsham, Sussex; she died , ; he married 2ndly, , 1877, Amelia Durant, dau. of John Wesley Jago, Esq., of Dunedin, New Zealand.

Anderson's Bay, Dunedin, New Zealand; Oxford and Cambridge Club, S.W.