George Bettesworth Piggott
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Sir George Bettesworth Piggott | |
|---|---|
| Chief Justice of Zanzibar | |
| In office August 1901 – 1904 | |
| Monarch | Edward VII |
| Preceded by | Walter Borthwick Cracknall |
| Succeeded by | Lindsey Smith |
| Assistant Judge for the Sublime Ottoman Porte | |
| In office 1904–1911 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 April 1867 |
| Died | 14 March 1952 (aged 84) |
| Party | Municipal Reform Party |
| Education | Middle Temple |
| Occupation | Judge |
Sir George Bettesworth Piggott KBE (30 April 1867 – 14 March 1952)[1] was a British judge who served in various positions under the British Empire.
Piggott was the son of Fraser Piggott, a justice of the peace.[2] His family had occupied Fitzhall in West Sussex since the 1400s.[3]
He was educated at the Westminster School.[1]
Law career
Piggott was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in June 1888,[4] and practiced law in London and the South-East.[1] Following this, he served as a judicial officer in the British Central Africa Protectorate in 1896.[1][5]: 159
From June 1900, he served as Acting Assistant Judge in Zanzibar.[6] In August 1901, he was appointed Chief Justice of Zanzibar.[7] While there, he helped implement "a deeply-entrenched legal bureaucracy" and the implementation of British imperial law.[5]: 167
In 1904, he became Assistant Judge for the Sublime Ottoman Porte in Constantinople.[1][5]: 167 He retired from the position in 1911 and returned to Africa, sitting in the East African Court of Appeal and as a judge for the Sultanate of Zanzibar.[1]
Political career
In 1913, he unsuccessfully contested Battersea in the London County Council election (LCC) as a member of the Municipal Reform Party. However, he sat on the LCC from 1917 to 1919 for Mile End, and then for Clapham until 1922.[1] At the time of his retirement from the LCC, he was chairman of the Public Control Committee.[8][9]