Henry Allan Fagan
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The Right Honourable Henry Allan Fagan KC |
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| Chief Justice of South Africa | |
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In office 1957–1959 |
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| Appointed by | J. G. Strydom |
| Preceded by | Albert van der Sandt Centlivres |
| Succeeded by | L. C. Steyn |
| Judge of the Appellate Division | |
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In office 1950–1959 |
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| Appointed by | D. F. Malan |
| Judge of the Cape Provincial Division | |
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In office 1943–1950 |
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| Appointed by | Jan Smuts |
| Minister of Native Affairs | |
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In office June 1938 – September 1939 |
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| Prime Minister | J. B. M. Hertzog |
| Preceded by | Piet W. Grobler |
| Succeeded by | Deneys Reitz |
| Member of the South African Parliament | |
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In office 1933–1943 |
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| Constituency |
Swellendam Stellenbosch |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 April 1889 Tulbagh, Cape Colony |
| Died | 6 December 1963 (aged 74) Cape Town |
| Nationality | South African |
| Alma mater |
Victoria College, Stellenbosch University of London |
| Profession | Barrister |
Henry Allan Fagan KC (4 April 1889 – 6 December 1963) was the Chief Justice of South Africa from 1957 to 1959 and previously a Member of Parliament and the Minister of Native Affairs in J. B. M. Hertzog's government. Fagan had been an early supporter of the Afrikaans language movement and a noted Afrikaans playwright and novelist. Though he was a significant figure in the rise of Afrikaner nationalism and a long-term member of the Broederbond, he later became an important opponent of Hendrik Verwoerd's National Party and is best known for the report of the Fagan Commission, whose relatively liberal approach to racial integration amounted to the Smuts government's last, doomed stand against the policy of apartheid.
Fagan was born in Tulbagh, a historical town in the winelands of the Cape Colony, in 1889. He was the oldest of seven children. His father was a lawyer and amateur poet, and kept a vast collection of books at the family's Cape Dutch residence (now a National Monument) on Kerk Straat, including leading works of theology and English literature. Fagan began his schooling in Tulbagh but completed the bulk of it in Somerset West. In 1905 he went to Victoria College (later to become the University of Stellenbosch), from which he earned a BA in Literature. He hoped (like many of his peers) to be a minister of religion, and went to the seminary in Stellenbosch; but his father's long-standing wish was that he would become a barrister, and continued to pay for private lessons in law.
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