De Sausmarez Baronets

The de Sausmarez Baronetcy, of Jerburg in Guernsey, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

It was created on 26 June 1928 for Havilland de Sausmarez who had been a judge of various British courts in Africa, the Ottoman Empire and China.

De Sausmarez, was born on 30 May 1861. He was the son of Reverend Havilland de Sausmarez and Anne Priaulx Walters. He was a scholar of Westminster where he was Head of the Water and had a fine athletic record. De Sausmarez, graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge University in 1883 with a Bachelor of Arts where he was also an athlete.

He was admitted as a barrister of the Inner Temple in 1881 and called to the Bar in November 1884. He practiced on the Southern Eastern Circuit in England and then moved to Africa, where he practiced in Lagos, Nigeria in 1891. He was acting Queen’s Advocate of the Colony of Lagos from June 1891 to January 1892.

He joined the Foreign Office Judicial Service when he was appointed a Consul in Zanzibar in June 1892. He held the office of Assistant Judge of the Consular Court in Zanzibar from 1893 to 1897 and then held the office of Assistant Judge of the Supreme Consular Court for the Ottoman Empire between December 1897 and 1903. He held the office of Judge of the Supreme Consular Court for the Ottoman Empire between 1903 and 1905. He was appointed Judge of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan (based in Shanghai) from 1905 to 1921 and President of the Full Court of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong from 1910 to 1920. He was knighted in 1905. ^[1]

After leaving Shanghai, Sausmarez took up his residence at the Sausmarez Manor in Guernsey. As Seigneur of Sausmarez Manor and Cliatelain of Jerbourg, he held the titular office of "Third Cup-bearer to the Duke of Normandy," held by his predecessors for many centuries.

A portrait of Sausmarez may be found at: http://www.niceartgallery.com/Frank-Cadogan-Cowper/Sir-Havilland-De-Sausmarez,-Bart.html

The title became extinct upon his death in 1941.

Annie, Lady de Sausmarez, wife of Sir Havilland de Sausmarez, was a philanthropist.

de Sausmarez Baronets, of Jerburg (1928)

• Sir Havilland Walter de Sausmarez, 1st Baronet (1861-1941)

References

• Leigh Rayment's List of Baronets

1. ^ Foreign Office List 1943, 352; Obituary, The Times 27 May 1941