{{Short description|British colonial judge}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific_prefix = [[The Honourable]] |name = Albert F. Ehrhardt |honorific_suffix = |image = |image_size = |alt = |caption =
|order = 10th |office = Attorney-General of Fiji |monarch = [[Edward VII]]<br>[[George V]] |governor = [[Henry Moore Jackson|Sir Henry Jackson]]<br>[[Everard im Thurn|Sir Everard im Thurn]]<br>[[Charles Henry Major|Sir Charles Major]] ''(acting)''<br>[[Francis Henry May|Sir Francis May]]<br>[[Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott|Sir Ernest Sweet-Escott]] |term_start = May 1903 |term_end = 1914 |predecessor = [[Henry Edward Pollock]] |successor = [[Alfred Karney Young]]
|order1 = Acting |office1 = Chief Judicial Commissioner for the Western Pacific |monarch1 = [[George V]] |governor1 = [[Charles Henry Major|Sir Charles Major]] ''(acting)''
|term_start1 = 1910 |term_end1 = 21 February 1911 |predecessor1 = [[Charles Henry Major|Sir Charles Major]]
|successor1 = [[Charles Henry Major|Sir Charles Major]]
|order2 = Acting |office2 = Chief Justice of Fiji |monarch2 = [[George V]] |governor2 = [[Charles Henry Major|Sir Charles Major]] ''(acting)''
|term_start2 = 1910 |term_end2 = 21 February 1911 |predecessor2 = [[Charles Henry Major|Sir Charles Major]] |successor2 = [[Charles Henry Major|Sir Charles Major]]
|birth_date = 1862 |birth_place = |death_date = 30 August 1929 (aged 66–67) |death_place = |resting_place = |birth_name = |citizenship = |party = |other_party = <!--For additional political affiliations--> |spouse = |partner = <!--For those with a domestic partner and not married--> |relations = |children = |alma_mater = [[Worcester College, Oxford]] |occupation = Lawyer |profession = |cabinet = |committees = |portfolio = |signature = |signature_alt = |website = |footnotes = <!--Military service--> |nickname = |allegiance = |branch = |service_years = |rank = |unit = |commands = |battles = |awards = }}
'''Albert F.<ref>{{cite web|title=Full Text of Yearbook|url=https://archive.org/stream/1912yearbook00royauoft/1912yearbook00royauoft_djvu.txt|website=Royal Colonial Institute|access-date=22 September 2015}}</ref> Erhardt''' (1862 – 30 August 1929) was a British lawyer, judge, and [[British Empire|colonial administrator]].
Erhardt graduated from [[Worcester College, Oxford]] in 1885 with a degree in Classics.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Foster |editor1-first=Joseph |editor1-link=Joseph Foster (genealogist) |title=Oxford Men and their Colleges |date=1893 |publisher=[[University of Oxford]] |location=Oxford |page=188}}</ref> He began practicing Law in 1889, before joining the [[Colonial Office|colonial service]] in 1896 as District Commissioner of [[Lagos]], now in [[Nigeria]]. He went on to become [[Resident of Ibadan]], as well as Attorney-General and Treasurer of Lagos (succeeding [[F. C. Fuller]], in 1902).<ref>{{cite web|title=London Personal Gossip|work=Advertiser |date=30 March 1903 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4933499|access-date=1 September 2015}}</ref> In February 1903 he became [[Attorney-General of Fiji]],<ref>''Fiji Blue Book for the Year 1903'', p112</ref> serving until 1914. During this period he also filled in for [[Charles Henry Major|Sir Charles Major]], the [[Chief Justice of Fiji]] and [[Chief Judicial Commissioner for the Western Pacific]], from 1910 to 1911, while Major was acting in an interim capacity as [[Governor of Fiji]] and [[High Commissioner for the Western Pacific]].<ref>Ehrhardt was also Attorney General 1903-1914; acting for Major while Major was Acting Governor of Fiji (1910-1911). {{harv|Lavaka|1981|pp=148}}</ref> In his role as Attorney-General, he also served in the [[Executive Council of Fiji|Executive Council]] and [[Legislative Council of Fiji|Legislative Council]].<ref>''Fiji Blue Book for the Year 1903'', pp80–81</ref>
In 1914, he returned to Africa as a judge of the [[British East Africa]] Protectorate. His final post, in 1920, was as a temporary assistant legal adviser in the Colonial Office.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Marcus Garvey|authorlink1=Marcus Garvey|page=605|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EVwMJlhJXbMC&q=%22Albert+Ehrhardt%22+%2B+%22Fiji%22&pg=PA605|title=The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume XI: The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910–1920|year=1983|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=0822346907|access-date=1 September 2015}}</ref>
{{s-start}} {{s-legal}} {{s-bef| before= [[Henry Edward Pollock]]}} {{s-ttl| title=[[Attorney-General of Fiji]] | years=1903-1914}} {{s-aft| after=[[Alfred Karney Young]]}} {{s-bef|rows=2| before=[[Charles Henry Major|Sir Charles Major]]}} {{s-ttl| title=Acting<br>[[Chief Judicial Commissioner for the Western Pacific]] | years=1903-1914}} {{s-aft|rows=2| after=[[Charles Henry Major|Sir Charles Major]]}} |- {{s-ttl| title=Acting<br>[[Chief Justice of Fiji]] | years=1903-1914}}
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== References == {{Reflist}} * {{cite journal |last = Lavaka |first = Penny |year = 1981 |title = The Tonga Ma'a Tonga Kautaha: a watershed in British-Tongan relations |journal = Pacific Studies |volume = 4 |issue = 2, Spring 1981 |publisher = Institute for Polynesian Studies |url = https://ojs.lib.byu.edu/spc/index.php/PacificStudies/article/viewFile/9209/8858 |access-date = 2015-09-01 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304201416/https://ojs.lib.byu.edu/spc/index.php/PacificStudies/article/viewFile/9209/8858 |archive-date = 2016-03-04 |url-status = dead }}
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