Jacob William Barth

Barth was born in London, United Kingdom in 1871.^[1] He attended Battersea Grammar School and matriculated from Wadham College, Oxford in 1890.^[2] Barth was admitted to Middle Temple and called to the bar on 27 June 1900.^[3] He served as Attorney General of the East Africa Protectorate between 1914 and 1918.^[4]

In 1920, he was appointed Chief Justice of Kenya and remained in the post until he retired in 1934.^[5]

He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1916 and Knight Bachelor in 1922.^[6] Barth died in Albury, Surrey in 1941.

• Chief Justice of Kenya
• Attorney General of Kenya