William Meigh Goodman

Sir W. Meigh Goodman KC was a British lawyer and Judge. He served as Attorney General and Chief Justice of British Honduras and Hong Kong in the late 19th and early 20th Century.

His last position before retirement was as Chief Justice of Hong Kong.

Goodman went by the first name Meigh but used the first initial W. on formal documents.

Goodman was born in 1847 and was the fourth son of Samuel Robert Goodman, of London. Goodman was educated at University College of London where he obtained a B.A. in 1867. He was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1870. He practised on the South Eastern Circuit and at the Surrey Sessions.

Goodman served as Attorney General of British Honduras (now Belize) from 1883 to 1886 and as Chief Justice of the same colony from 1886 to 1889. In 1886 he was commissioner to revise and consolidate the laws of British Honduras.

In 1889 he was appointed Attorney General of Hong Kong and served in that capacity until 1902. He was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1900.

In March 1902, he was appointed Chief Justice of Hong Kong. He served as Chief Justice until 1905. In 1903 he presided over the laying of the foundation stone for the new Hong Kong Supreme Court building.

Goodman retired to England in 1905. In 1907, he published a book "Reminiscences of a Colonial Judge".

He died on 3 May 1928 at the age of 81.

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