William Henry Hyndman Jones

Sir William Henry Hyndman Jones (9 August 1847 – 20 August 1926) was a British colonial judge and administrator.

William Henry Hyndman Jones
William Henry Hyndman Jones circa 1908
Born	9 August 1847  Liverpool
Died	20 August 1926  (aged 79) Bournemouth
Education	Trinity College, Cambridge
Occupation	Barrister

William Henry Hyndman Jones was born on 9 August 1847 in Liverpool.[1][2] He attended Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge,[3] was admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 21 November 1870, and was called to the bar of Lincoln's Inn on 3 July 1878.[1][2]

In 1880, two years after his call to the bar, he went to Barbados to review the operations of its police force.[3][4] One year later, he became an acting judge of the Barbados Court of Appeal.[3] In 1883, he was the chief justice of both Saint Lucia and Tobago, as well as the attorney general and a member of the executive council of either or both colonies.[3] He held various judicial and administrative positions in Jamaica from 1887 to 1896.[3]

Hyndman Jones was sent to the Straits Settlements in 1896.[3] He became the acting judicial commissioner of the Federated Malay States in 1903 and chief judicial commissioner effective 1 January 1906.[3] In August 1906, he became the chief justice of the Straits Settlements.[3] He retired in 1914.[4]

He was appointed a knight bachelor in 1906.[2][5]

Hyndman Jones died on 20 August 1926 in Bournemouth, England.[2][6]