Walter Huggard

In 1914 he became a magistrate in Nigeria and in 1920 was appointed Solicitor General for Trinidad and Tobago. Huggard took silk in 1921.^[3] The following year he became Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago and was Attorney General for the Kenya Colony from 1926 to 1929 (a position which also gave him a seat in the Legislative Council) and Attorney General for the Straits Settlements from 1929 to 1933.^[4][5] Huggard was knighted in 1933.^[6] He was succeeded as Attorney General of the Straits Settlements by Percy McElwaine.^[7] From 1933 to 1936 he served as Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements.^[8][9]

Sir Walter was later Judge of the High Courts of Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland and was legal advisor to the High Commissioner from 1937.^[10] In 1938, 1940, 1942, 1945 and 1946 he fulfilled the role of acting High Commissioner for the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland^[11]

In 1948 he retired.^[12]

He married Kathleen Norah in 1915.^[13]

Sir Walter died in Hermanus near Cape Town.^[14]