THE JUDGE FAMILY PAPERS presented to THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN LIBRARIES

BC 500 THE JUDGE FAMILY PAPERS

Manuscripts & Archives

University of Cape Town Libraries

presented to

The University of Cape Town Libraries

A list

by Mrs J. Inglis and Mrs R. Thompson

1976

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Biographical note

The Collection

A. Rev. Edward Judge Papers

B. Edward Arthur Judge Papers

INTRODUCTION

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Canon Edward Judge was born in 1801 and educated at St. Paul's School, London and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1824 he became a Deacon of the Church of England, and in 1825 arrived at the Cape to be rector of the Grammar School. He was ordained in Cape Town in 1832. During the 1830's he was Professor of English and Classical Literature at the South African College, as well as holding the post of Colonial Chaplain to 4iynberg and Rondebosch. In 1840 he was appointed Episcopal Chaplain of Simonstown and in 1848 became parish priest in Simonstown, a post he held until shortly before his death in 1875. In 1851 he became a canon. Canon Judge was the Senior Priest and Clerical Father of the Diocese.

Edward Arthur Judge, son of Canon Judge, was born in 1836. He started his career in the Civil Service as a clerk in Simonstown in 1856. In 1862 he was appointed acting magistrate and Civil Commissioner in Namaqualand, a post he took up full time in 1864. In 1868 he was moved to Queenstown, in 1875 to Kingwilliamstown, and in 1877 he was moved in quick succession to Fiynberg, Paarl and Worcester. In 1882 he was appointed Resident Magistrate and Registrar of Deeds in Kimberley, a post he held until his retirement in 1900. Judge sat on numerous government commissions, notably boundary commissions. In 1896 he was chairman of the commission

on the rearrangement of diversions in British Bechuanaland. In 1892 he was made a member of the Special Court. He died in 1907.

THE COLLECTION

The Judge Family Papers were presented to the University of Cape Town Libraries in 1968 by Mrs J. Inglis and Mrs Ruth Thompson, granddaughters of E.A. Judge, and number 103 items.

The Papers consist of personal documents relating to the careers of Canon Edward Judge and his son Edward Arthur Judge. Canon Judge's papers include birth, marriage and ordination certificates and letters of appointment signed by Bishop Robert Gray, and cover the period 1824-1875.

The major part of the papers are those of E.A. Judge. These are particularly relevant to the history of the Eastern Cape, 1870-1876. Personalities like Charles Brownlee, first Secretary for Native Affairs, John X.Merriman, Sir Theophilus Shepstone and Dr. James Stewart of Lovedale are mentioned

in the papers. There is also material relating to Namaqualand, Griqualand West and Matabeleland, 1862-1900, including handwritten copies of the reports of Commissions on which Judge sat.

	BC 500 JUDGE FAMILY PAPERS
A	REV. EDWARD JUDGE
A1	Certificate of ordination of Edward Judge, handwritten on parchment and signed by the Bishop of Calcutta, with the seal of the Bishop of London, dated 9/9/1832, in the Dutch Reformed Church, Cape Town.
A2	Licence granting the Parish of Simonstown to Rev. Edward Judge, filled in and signed by the Bishop, Robert Gray, of Cape Town, and with his seal attached, dated 2/8/1848.
A3	Declaration by Edward Judge, to conform to the liturgy of the United Church of England and Ireland. Signed and with the seal of the Bishop, Robert Gray, of Cape Town, dd.2/8/1848.
A4	Document of ordination of Edward Judge as deacon in the Church of England "For the cure of souls in His Majesty's foreign possessions". Signed and with the seal of the Bishop of Ely. Printed on parchment and dated 7/11/1824.
A5	Special Licence issued in Cape Town for the marriage of Edward Judge to Charlotte Wheatley, in the Matrimonial Court, Cape Town, 19/6/1830, signed by the Governor, Sir Lowry Cole, the Secretary to the Government, Sir John Bell and counter signed by the officiating minister, Rev. George Hough, Senior Colonial Chaplain, with a seal.
A6	Copy, dated.23/8/1852, of. the baptism certificate of Edward Judge, born in Bloomsbury, London, 18/10/1801.
A7	Holograph letter from Bishop Robert Gray of Cape Town, to Rev. Edward Judge inviting him to become a Canon of the Chapter of the Diocese of Cape Town, dated.15/11/1851, from Protea (i.e. Bishopscourt, Claremont, Cape).
A8	Draft of the letter from Rev. Edward Judge to the Bishop of Cape Town, accepting the office of Canon, dated Simonstown, 24/11/1851.
A9	Extract from the Register of Baptisms in the Military Chapel, Cape Town, of the record of the baptism, on 10/8/1836, of Edward Arthur, son of Edward and Charlotte Judge. Signed by Edward Judge, Officiating Chaplain to the Troops, dated 10/8/183(
A10	Marriage certificate of the Rev. Edward Judge, M.A., Professor of English and Classical literature in the South African College and Charlotte Wheatley, at their marriage in Cape Town, 22/6/1830 signed by George Hough, Senior Colonial Chaplain, witnessed by John Wheatley, John Murray, M.D., and Miss Mary F. Judge, dated 22/6/1830.
A11	Holograph letter dated 17/2/1840 to Rev. Edward Judge from the Colonial Office, signed by Sir John Bell, Secretary to the Government, notifying him of his appointment by the Secretary of State to the office of Episcopal Chaplain of Simonstown.
A12	Holograph letter to the Colonial Secretary from E.A. Judge (son of Rev. Edward Judge), dated Simonstown 9/11/1874, applying for a pension on behalf of his father, and giving an outline of his career.
A13 .	Official reply to the above item (12), from the Colonial Secretary's Office, dated Cape Town 20/11/1874, signed by the Under. Colonial Secretary, Charles Mills (?).
A14.	Obituary of Canon Edward Judge from The Church News,Cape Town, 1/2/1875.
B.	EDWARD ARTHUR JUDGE
B1	Copy, dated 2/7/1852, from the Baptismal Register of the baptism of Edward Arthur.Judge.
B2	Holograph letter from Richard Southey to "My dear Judge" (i.e. E.A. Judge), dated. Cape Town, 18/8/1862, re leave of absence of the latter from Namaqualand.
B3	Letter to E.A. Judge from the Colonial Office, informing him of his appointment as Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate for Namaqualand, dated 23/8/1864.
B4	Extract from reply of Mr P. Fletcher to an invitation to him to become a candidate for a seat in the Colonial Parliament. Newspaper clipping, dated 2!E/3/1866.
B5	Handwritten draft of a report sent to the Colonial Secretary, signed by E.A. Judge re the proposed road to Hondeklip Bay or Port Nolloth, dated about March 1866.
B6	Holograph letter to E.A. Judge, signed H.(?) Burton, dated Clanwilliam 18/10/1868, thanking the former for advice and help.
B7	Holograph letter from Sir Philip Wodehouse, Governor of the Cape Colony, to E.A. Judge offering to transfer the latter from Namaqualand to Queenstown, dated.4/9/1868.
B8	Holograph letter to E.A. Judge from Sir Philip Wodehouse replying to an official letter from the former, re arrangements with the Chief of the Bondlezwarts [i.e. Bondelswarts tribe in S,W.A.], dated 25/9/1868.
B9	A claim for reimbursement from the Colonial Government for expenses incurred and loss of livestock suffered by the Chief of the Bondlezwartz and his men while on their way from Nisbet Bath to Pella to join a Commando, dated 5/12/1868.
B10	Letter to E.A. Judge appointing him as Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate for Queenstown, signed by Richard Southey, dated Colonial Office, 31/10/1868.
B11	Holograph letter to E.A. Judge from Richard Southey, re house allowance at Queenstown, dated Colonial, Office, 27/11/1868.
B12	Holograph letter to E.A. Judge from Sir, Philip Wodehouse, re hut tax levy from the Tambookies, dated 26/5/1869.
B13	Printed circular re St. Michael's Grammar School, Queenstown, over the name of E.A. Judge "for the Committee", dated Queenstown 7/5/1875.
B14	Handwritten copy of the report and recommendations of the Dordrecht Boundaries and Tambookie Location Commission of June and July 1870, submitted to-the Colonial Secretary By E.A. Judge and James Ayliff, (with comments on the text by Sir Theophilus Shepstone, father-in-law of E.A. Judge), dated 17/7/1870. 14pp. Attachments to this report:
B14.1	Letter dated 4/10/1870 from the Colonial Office to the Civil Commissioner of Queenstown, informing him that a Mr Harry Southey had been instructed to carry out the surveying and sub-division of the Tambookie Location in the Queenstown district.
B14.2	Printed proclamation creating the magisterial district of Wode house, dated 5/1/1871.
B14.3	Handcopied map,of,the Wodehouse district with a note stating "From Sketch by Mr Joseph Orpen, Land-surveyor at New England, 1870" [i.e. New England. near Barkly East].
B15	Letter addressed to Col. Edmonstone, 32nd Regiment, Kingwilliamstown from the Colonial Office, signed by Richard Southey, appointing the former as president and E.A. Judge and I.M. Grant.(of the Frontier Mounted Police) as members of a commission of inquiry into the causes of the hostilities between Krali and Gangeliswe, dated 29/10/1872.
	Annexures to this instruction:
B15.1	Report of proceedings at Clarkebury, 29/11/1872, where the Commissioners held a meeting with Gangeliswe.
B15.2	Proceedings of the Commission of Inquiry held at Clarkebury on 30/11/1872 and subsequent days. Records evidence given by Gangeliswe and some of his chiefs and headmen.
B16	Handwritten copy of the report of the Commission of Inquiry submitted to the Secretary for Naive Affairs, over the names of the Commissioners, Lt. Col. J. Edmonstone, E.A. Judge and M.Grant, dated 30/12/1872. 23pp.
B17	Holograph letter to E.A. Judge from Charles Brownlee, Secretary for Native Affairs, dated 24/10/1872 from Kingwilliamstown, re the Commission of Inquiry.
B18	Handwritten copy of a letter to Col. Edmonstone from Sir Henry Barkly, re the outcome of the Commission of Inquiry, dated 9/l/l873.
B19	Holograph letter to E.A. Judge from E.B.Chalmers, dated Clarkebury 30/12/1872, re messengers sent to Queenstown by Gangeliswe.
B20	Holograph letter to E.A. Judge from E.B. Chalmers, dated Clarkebury 19/2/1873, reporting on Krali and the immigrant Tambookies.
B21	Holograph letter to E.A. Judge from Math. Blyth, dated Nqamakwe 24/2/1875, giving his views about settling Fingoes in Gangeliswes country.
B22	Holograph letter to E.A. Judge from E.B. Chalmers, dated Clarkebury, 18/3/1873, re unrest in the district between Krali and Gangeliswe and the Tembus.
B23	Holograph letter to E.A. Judge from E.B. Chalmers, dated Kingwilliamstown 25/4/1873, re Krali's refusal to return stolen cattle.
B24	Holograph (?) letter to E.A. Judge from W.D. Fynn [this letter is not signed but in another handwriting - possibly that of E.A. Judge - is written "Yours truly W.D. Fynn"], dated Graham Villa 14/3/1873, re Charles Brownlee's visit to Krali and Gangeliswe.
B25	Holograph, letter to E.A. Judge from Col.J. Edmonstone, undated (note on letter "ans.15/9/73"), expressing disappointment at the fact that the new Cape Government had apparently disregarded the Commission's report.
B26	Holograph letter to E.A. Judge from R.G. Tainton, dated Kingwilliamstown 12/2/1873, re the Commission's report and other matters concerning the affairs in the Native territories.
B27	Draft of a letter written by E.A. Judge to Capt. Math. Blyth, date 9/3/1873, re the policy of moving Native settlers into Gangeliswe's territory in order to strengthen him.
B28	Holograph,letter to E.A. Judge from Capt. M. Blyth, dated Nqamakwe 1/9/1873, re hut tax in Fingoeland. He also mentions Dr. Stewart of Lovedale.
B29	Holograph letter to E.A. Judge from Capt. M. Blyth, dated Ngamakwe16/2/1874, re the report of the Commission, and mentions the arrival of Dr. Stewart "to fix... site etc. for his Institute".
B30.1-B30.5	'5 Newspaper -clippings re Transkeian affairs. Three of these are entitled "Sketches from the East" by John Noble, dated 1873.
B31	Handwritten letter of appreciation of his work as Magistrate of the district of Tarkastad,- addressed to E.A. Judge, signed by J.E. (?) J. (?) de Villiers (for the town and district) and John Robinson, Chairman (for the Municipality), dated Tarkastad 27/8/1874.
B32	Handwritten document to the "Government", signed by Matanzima Utirara (?), Gecebo Tyopo and Stok (?) Ndela, in which they describe themselves as the "red people", and mention the influence of the missionaries and traders on the way of life and standard of living in their district, dated 4/9/1875 from Qamata post (?).
B33	Two newspaper clippings from The Cape Mercury (Kingwilliamstown) 30/8/1876, and the Kaffrarian Watchman, 4/9,/1876, reporting a meeting held in Tembuland between Charles Brownlee and other Government officials and various African chiefs, in order to settle disputes.
B34	Handwritten copy of a report on the drunkeness and general lawlessness amongst the men employed in constructing the railway line at Beaufort West, submitted to the Colonial Secretary by E. Judge, Civil Commissioner, Worcester, dated February 1877.
B35	Letter appointing E.A. Judge as Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate of Worcester, from the Colonial Secretary's office, signed by Charles Mills, dated 22/11/1877. Charles Mills was Under Colonial Secretary in 1877 (Cape Almanac, 1877).
B36	Handwritten copy of a report of the proceedings of an inquiry into irregularities by staff employed by the Railways on the Midland and North Eastern system, submitted by E.A. Judge to the Colonial Secretary, dated Worcester, 15/6/1878.
B37	Letter to E.A. Judge from the office of the Commissioner of Crown'Lands and Public Works, Cape Town, signed by C.B. Elliott, Assistant Commissioner, dated 4/7/1878, acknowledging the report described in item 50, above.
B38	Holograph letter to E.A. Judge from Charles Mills, dated 22/6 [1878?] from Colonial Secretary's Office, in which he states "Mr Sprigg...[has] last evening been able to read your report".
B39	Holograph letter to E.A. Judge from Charles Mills, dated Cape Town 1/7/1878, commending him on the report and saying that if his services are needed again he will be relieved of his duties temporarily.
B40	Holograph report on the Bastard people of the Northern Border districts, addressed to Rev. William Murray, from J.(?) P.(,) Jackson, Civil Commissioner, dated Richmond, 29/10/1878.
B41	Handwritten copy of a letter addressed to the Under Colonial Secretary from E .A. Judge, dated Springbok 12/4/1879, re Lilyfontein Volunteers at O'Kiep,and Nisbet Bath.
B42	Handwritten copy of a letter from E.A Judge addressed to Capt.B. Green of the Lilyfontein Volunteers, dated Springbok 10/4/1879, re the raising, equipping, etc.of volunteers placed under the command of Capt. Green, for service against the "Africanders, Korannas and others'”?.
B43	Letter to E.A. Judge, from the Colonial Secretary's Office, signed by Charles Mills, dated 23/4/1879, thanking the former for his "valuable services" in Namaqualand.
B44	Letter to E.A. Judge, Acting Civil Commissioner in Kingwilliamstown from the Colonial Secretary's Office, signed by Hampden Willis, Acting Under Colonial Secretary, dated Cape Town, 4/2/1881, commending him for his work in the settlement of claims after the Buffalo Bush rebellion.
B45	Letter from the Colonial Secretary's Office to E.A. Judge appointing him to the position of Civil Commissioner and Registrar of Deeds for Kimberley Division, dated 10/12/1881, signed by Hampden Willis, Acting Under Colonial Secretary.
B46	Handwritten report of proceedings of the Medical Commission appointed to report on cases under treatment at the Quarantine Station, Felstead, dated Felstead, 3/11/1883, opinions given by Drs. Grimmer (Chairman), Murphy, Mathews, Otto, Jamieson and Smith.
B47	Letter from the Colonial Secretary's Office to E.A. Judge, signed by Hampden Willis, Under Colonial Secretary, dated Cape Town 9/6/1883, appointing the former Magistrate.
B48	Handwritten statement headed : "Statement of the Chief Montsoia [of Mafeking] Voluntiary (sic) made this 22nd day of October 1884, at Mafeking before Edward Rowland, trader, Mafeking - three of his [Montsoia's] Councillors and the undersigned Witnesses". Re Rooi Ground Volunteers and others.
B49	Newspaper clipping of the report of the Commission of Inquiry into. the disaster in De Beer's Mine, dated 4/8/1883, over the names cf E.A. Judge, James M. Crosby and William Grier. Newspaper not identified.
B50	Letter to E.A. Judge from the office of the Commissioner o{ Crown Lands and Public Works, signed by L. Marquard, dated 16/8/1888, thanking the former for his part in the investigations into the disaster in the De Beer's Mine.
B51	Holograph letter to E.A. Judge from John X. Merriman (then minister in the Cape Cabinet), dated, Treasury, Cape Town 5/10/1892 (?). commending him for his "coup" in getting ₤50,000 from De Beers.
B52	Holograph letter signed C.E. Judge (son of E.A. Judge),to his mother, dated Victoria 8/8/1893, re Dr..Jameson, the Matabele and the Mashonaland Border Police.
B53	Holograph letter, in pencil, signed by C.E. Judge, to his mother, dated Changaan River, Matabeleland 24/10/1893, re Matabele War, and comments on Jameson and Rhodes.
B54	Copy of a letter signed by E.A. Judge to the Under Secretary, dates Kimberley 21/4/1893, reporting on the Griqualand West Police Force.
B55	Holograph letter signed by Sydney Cowper, dated the Prime Minister's Office, Cape Town 12/10/1899, to E.A. Judge, re the Prime Minister's (W.P. Schreiner's) views on '”sucn rabid writings as the D.F.A. [Diamond Fields Advertiser] indulges in cannot possibly harm an officer of your standing".
B56	Printed report and returns by the Eastern Section of the War Losses Compensation Commission, dated Cala, Transkei, 22/3/1902. addressed to the Prime Minister by the Commission, the members of which were:
	E.A. Judge (Chairman, Eastern Section), J. Ayliff and M.B.G. Jackson, Major R.G.A.
B57	Holograph memorandum concerning future operations of the Commission, signed by E.A. Judge, dated July 1902.
B58	Printed Report of the War Losses Compensation Commission, covering period July 1900, to February, 1904. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of His Excellency the Governor, 1904.
B59.1-B59.2	Two newspaper clippings from the Cape Times, dated 20/4/1904, war losses compensation.
B60	Printed report of the War Losses Compensation Commission, addressed to His Excellency the Hon. Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson, by W.M. Fleischer (Chairman) and E.A. Judge, dated Cape Town, 18/3/1904.
B61	Newspaper clipping (source not given) headed: "War Losses Compensation; The Inquiry Bill"; dated ca.1904.
B62	Bill to provide: for the appointment of Sub-Commissions to assist the War Losses Compensation Commission appointed in terms of Government Notice no.465 of 1900. (A.B. 23B-190]. (As Read for a Third Time). Printed.
B63.1-B63.2	Holograph draft of a letter re the War Losses Compensation Inquiry Commission by E.A. Judge to Judge Percival Laurence, dated December, 1906 (With a note about abbreviations used).
B64	Typed letter to E.A. Judge from Judge P.M. Laurence, dated February 1907, re War Losses Compensation Commission.
B65	Application form submitted by E.A. Judge for a pension on retirement from the Civil Service, dated 12/3/1900.
B66	Memorandum in support of the above application. Unsigned and undated.
B67	Typed letter from the Attorney General's Office to E.A. Judge signed by the Secretary to the Law Department, John J. Graham, dated 3/4/1900, re the former's pension.
B68	Holograph copy of a letter from E.A. Judge to the Secretary to the Law Department, dated Kimberley 20/4/1900, re his pension claim.
B69	Typed letter from the Attorney General's Office to E.A. Judge, dated Cape Town 15/5/1900, signed by John J. Graham, Secretary to the Law Department, re disputed pension claim.
B70	Typed report of the Attorney General, dated 10/5/1900, re disputed pension claim by E.A. Judge, unsigned but the name Richard Solomon is typed at the bottom.
B71	Holograph draft (not addressed to anyone) starting "With reference to the Report of the Attorney General...", signed by E.A. Judge, dated Cape Town 27/6/1900, re pension claim.
B72	Holograph draft of a letter by E.A. Judge (unsigned) to the Prime Minister, dated 31/10/1901, re the former's pension claim.
B73	Typed letter to E.A. Judge signed by J. Rose Innes, dated Attorney General's Office, Cape Town, 29/10/1901, re the former' s pension claim.
B74	Typed letter to E.A. Judge from the Prime Minister's office, signed by Sydney Cowper, Secretary to the Prime Minister, dated 9/1/1902, re the former's pension claim.
B75	Handwritten letter to E.A. Judge, from the Attorney General's Office, Cape Town, signed by the Secretary to the Law Department, John J. Graham, dated 9/6/1883, re special allowance which will not count for pension payable to E.A. Judge.
B76	Holograph reminiscences by E.A. Judge, p.11-576 [pages 1-10 and title-page missing].
B77	Portrait of E.A. Judge, photographed by Herman Warschowski, Grand Parade, St. Leonards on Sea, circa early 1900s.
B78	Water colour, on 'graph paper'of the arms of Spencer Judge, solicitor, Calcutta, with the motto "Fiat voluntas dei"(?).
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