Henry Juta


Sir Henry Herbert Juta was a South African judge who served as Speaker of the Cape House of Assembly, Judge President of the Cape Provincial Division and judge of the South African Appellate Division.
He also served as MLA for Oudtshoorn, and briefly in 1894 as Attorney General for the second government of Prime Minister Cecil Rhodes. He was knighted in the 1897 Diamond Jubilee Honours.
In late 1902 he visited the United Kingdom with his family.

Family

Juta was born in South Africa to Jan Carel Juta and Louise Marx and baptised into the Dutch Reformed Church. He was a nephew of Karl Marx. His parents together founded the publishing house Juta and Company.