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Line 1: {{short description\|English long jumper}} {{for\|the West Indian cricketer\|Sidney Abrahams (cricketer)}} {{Use dmy dates\|date=~~March~~January ~~2012~~2021}} {{Use British English\|date=March 2012}} {{Infobox officeholder \|name = Sir Sidney Abrahams \|office = 26th [[Chief Justice of Ceylon]] ~~\|honorific-prefix =[[The Right Honourable]]~~ \|honorific-suffix = [[Queen's Counsel\|QC]] \|native_name = Line 23: \|birth_place = [[Birmingham]], [[England]] \|death_date = {{Death date and age\|1957\|05\|14\|1885\|02\|1\|df=yes}} \|death_place = [[London]], England \|nationality = [[United Kingdom\|British]] \|otherparty = <!--For additional political affiliations--> Line 31: \|children = \|alma_mater = [[University of Cambridge\|Cambridge University]] ~~\|religion = [[Jewish]]~~ \|website = \|imagesize = Line 39 ⟶ 38: \|birthname = }} '''Sir Sidney Solomon Abrahams''' {{postnominals\|country=GBR\|size=100%\|PC\|QC}} (11 February 1885 – 14 May 1957), nicknamed '''Solly''', was a ~~[[United Kingdom\|~~British]] [[Athletics at the Summer Olympics\|Olympic athlete]] and 26th [[Chief Justice of Ceylon]] ([[Sri Lanka]]). He was the older brother of famed Olympian [[Harold Abrahams]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68825 \|title=Sidney Abrahams \|work=Olympedia \|access-date=28 April 2021}}</ref> ==Early life== Born in [[Birmingham]], [[England]], Abrahams was educated at [[Bedford Modern School]] and [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{Cite web\|url-access=subscription\|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-233877\|title=Abrahams, Rt Hon. Sir Sidney Solomon, (11 February 1885 – 14 May 1957), Member of Judicial Cttee of Privy Council since 1941; Senior Legal Assistant, Commonwealth Relations Office and Colonial Office\|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO\|year=2007\|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U233877\|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1}}</ref> ~~Born in [[Birmingham]], [[England]], Abrahams was educated at [[Bedford Modern School]]<ref>"Who's Who 1935", Published by A&C Black Ltd, 1935</ref> and [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]].~~ He competed at athletics for [[University of Cambridge\|Cambridge University]] from 1904 to 1906. At the unofficial Olympiad, the 1906 '[[1906 Summer Olympics\|Intercalated Games]]' held in Athens, he finished fifth in the [[long jump]] with 6.21 metres. At the 1912 [[1912 Summer Olympics\|Stockholm Olympics]] he finished in eleventh place in the same event with 6.72 metres. At the 1913 [[Amateur Athletic Association Championships]] in [[London]], he won the long jump with 6.86 metres.[http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/bc1.htm British Athletics Championships 1876-1914]. He studied law at the [[Middle Temple]] and was [[called to the bar]] in 1909. Line 51 ⟶ 50: He joined the Colonial Service and was Advocate General in Baghdad in 1920 and President of the Civil Courts in [[Basra]] in 1921. After serving as Attorney General of Zanzibar (1922), Uganda (1925) and Gold Coast (1928), Abrahams was appointed [[Chief Justice of Uganda]] in 1933 and [[Chief Justice of Tanganyika]] in 1934.<ref>{{cite book\|title= The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History\|first= William\|last = Rubinstein\|page=11}}</ref> He then served as [[Chief Justice of Ceylon]] from 1936- to 1939 and was knighted in 1936. The most celebrated case he presided over was that of the [[Australians\|Australian]] [[Mark Anthony Bracegirdle]], whom the [[Governors of British Ceylon\|Governor of British Ceylon]] Sir [[Reginald Stubbs]] was attempting to have [[deported]]; the court ruled against the Governor. He was founder-president of the Medico-Legal Society of Ceylon. He was succeeded by [[John Curtois Howard]], after the acting [[Francis Soertsz]].<ref name=JSCS>{{cite web\|title=Overview\|url=http://www.jsc.gov.lk/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=60&lang=en\|publisher=Judicial Service Commission Secretariat\|accessdate=19 October 2013\|~~deadurl~~url-status=~~yes~~dead\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019091817/http://www.jsc.gov.lk/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=60&lang=en\|archivedate=19 October 2013~~\|df=dmy-all~~}}</ref> He retired from the bench in 1939. Sidney Abrahams chaired a Committee on the Administration of Justice in [[Nigeria]]. He was later Senior Legal Assistant to the [[Commonwealth Relations Office]], and played a major role in the suspension of the [[People's Progressive Party (Guyana)\|People's Progressive Party]] Government of [[Cheddi Jagan]] in [[British Guiana]] (Guyana) in 1953. Line 64 ⟶ 63: ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== [https://web.archive.org/web/20060111171003/http://www.revolutionary-history.co.uk/otherdox/Whatnext/Bracegir.html T. Perera, 'The Bracegirdle Saga: 60 Years After', ''What Next'', No 5 1997] [http://www.jewsinsports.org/olympics.asp?sport=olympics&ID=318 ''Abrahams, Sidney 'Solly''', Jews in Sport Online] Line 81 ⟶ 82: [[Category:1885 births]] [[Category:1957 deaths]] ~~[[Category:People from Birmingham, West Midlands]]~~ [[Category:People educated at Bedford Modern School]] [[Category:Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge]] Line 87: [[Category:English male long jumpers]] [[Category:British male long jumpers]] [[Category:Jewish ~~male athletes (~~track and field) athletes]] [[Category:Olympic athletes offor Great Britain]] [[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1906 Intercalated Games]] [[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1912 Summer Olympics]] [[Category:English Jews]] [[Category:Chief ~~Justices~~justices of British Ceylon]] [[Category:Chief ~~Justices~~justices of Tanzania]] [[Category:19th-century British ~~expatriates in Sri Lanka~~sportspeople]] [[Category:19th-century British people]]▼ ~~[[Category:19th-century Sri Lankan people]]~~ [[Category:Knights Bachelor]] [[Category:~~Sportspeople~~Athletes from Birmingham, West Midlands]] [[Category:Uganda Protectorate judges]] [[Category:Gold Coast (British colony) people]] [[Category:Tanganyika (territory) judges]] [[Category:Attorneys ~~General~~general of the Gold Coast (British colony)]] [[Category:Attorneys ~~General~~general of the Uganda Protectorate]] [[Category:Attorneys-~~General~~general of the Sultanate of Zanzibar]] [[Category:Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom]] [[Category:English people of Polish-Jewish descent]] [[Category:English people of Welsh descent]] [[Category:Civil servants in the Commonwealth Relations Office]] ▲[[Category:~~19th-century~~Jewish British ~~people~~sportspeople]]