John de Villiers, 1st Baron de Villiers
- John de Villiers, 1st Baron de Villiers
John de Villiers, 1st Baron de Villiers KCMG PC (15 June 1842-2 September 1914), was a South African lawyer and judge.
de Villiers was the son of Charles Christian de Villiers, of Paarl, Cape of Good Hope. He served as Attorney-General of the Cape Colony from 1872 to 1874, as Chief Justice of the Cape Colony from 1874 to 1910 and as Chief Justice of South Africa from 1910 to 1914. He was admitted to the Privy Council in 1897 and in 1910 he was raised to the peerage as Baron de Villiers, of Wynberg in the Province of the Cape of Good Hope and the Union of South Africa.
Lord de Villiers married Aletta Johanna, daughter of Jan Pieter Jordaan, in 1871. He died in September 1914, aged 72, and was succeeded in the barony by his son Charles Percy de Villiers. Lady de Villiers died in 1922.
References
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). "Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage" (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
* [http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page]
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