About William Arrindell
Lived 1796 – 1862 (aged 66). William Arrindell was a judge.
Sir William Arrindell CB (12 October 1796 – 27 December 1862)
Born in Tortola, the Virgin Islands, he was educated in England. Arrindell worked as barrister in Georgetown and in 1824, he defended John Smith in his trial. and was subsequently appointed Chief Justice of British Guiana in 1852. He was created a Knight Bachelor in 1858 and was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the same year.
He died at Demerara, aged 66, from the consequences of a fall from a staircase. His funeral procession stretched for half a mile and was the greatest British Guiana had seen so far.
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19th-century British judge
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William Arrindell was born on 12 October 1796 in Tortola.
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William Arrindell died on 27 December 1862 in British Guiana, Demerara.
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William Arrindell was a judge.
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