Ragnar Hyne

Sir Ragnar Hyne (1893 – 4 October 1966) was a Norway-born lawyer who served in several British colonies. He was Attorney General of Sierra Leone and Chief Justice in both Fiji and Tonga.

Biography Born in Randsfjord in Norway, Hyne graduated from the University of Queensland. He worked for the Queensland Education Service until serving in the army during World War I. Following the war, he was appointed Director of Education in Tonga in 1920, a position he held until 1929. he married Effie Harris in 1930. In May 1932 he returned to Tonga as Director of Education, and was appointed Secretary to the Premier a month later. In 1938 he returned to the Solomon Islands to become Chief Magistrate. After a brief spell in England, he returned to Africa to become a member of the Supreme Court of Ghana. He retired from his posts in Fiji in 1958, after which he was appointed to legal positions in Cyprus and Gibraltar.

He died in England in October 1966 at the age of 73.