Henry Allan Fagan

Henry Allan Fagan, QC 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's most significant judgments were about private law, raising little political intrigue: he established that gambling debts are unenforceable in South African law, and that undue influence vitiates a contract.

Henry Allan Fagan, QC (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.

occupation/position claim resolves to: Chief Justice

P27 (country of citizenship): South Africa

P569 (date of birth): 1889

P569 (date of birth): 1889-04-04

P570 (date of death): 1963

P570 (date of death): 1963-12-06

P19 (place of birth): Tulbagh

P20 (place of death): Cape Town