{{short description|English barrister and judge}} {{hatnote|He is not the same man as the Charles Macaskie who founded the naturist resort called Spielplatz.}} {{Use British English|date=August 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | office1 = Chief Justice of North Borneo | predecessor1 = ''Office established'' | successor1 = Sir Ivor Llewellyn Brace | term_start1 = 1934 | term_end1 = 1945 | nominator1 = Ramsay MacDonald | appointer1 = George V | office2 = Chief Civil Affairs Officer of Borneo | predecessor2 = ''Japanese surrender'' | successor2 = ''end of military governance'' | term_start2 = 12 September 1945 | term_end2 = 1 July 1946 | governor2 = Charles Robert Smith | name = Charles Macaskie | birth_name = Charles Frederick Cunningham Macaskie | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1888|3|26}} | spouse = {{marriage|Maggie Winifred Mary Bruce|1918|1926|end=div}}<br />{{marriage|Doris Legg|1946|}} | birth_place = Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | death_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1969|11|26|1888|3|26}} | signature = | footnotes = | relations = | children = Ian Bruce Macaskie | image = File:Charles Macaskie.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = | occupation = | profession = Barrister | honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable Brigadier | honorific_suffix = CMG | citizenship = British | resting_place = | parents = Charles Frederick Cunningham Macaskie (Father)<br />Mary Calthorpe Emslie (Mother) | alma_mater = Gray's Inn | allegiance = {{flag|United Kingdom}} | branch = {{army|United Kingdom}} | unit = Royal West Kent Regiment | battles = World War I | awards = | service_years = | commands = | rank = Brigadier }}
Brigadier '''Charles Frederick Cunningham Macaskie''' {{post-nominals|post-noms=CMG}} (26 March 1888 – 26 November 1969)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Charles-Macaskie/6000000000941594850|accessdate=14 August 2019|title=Charles Frederick Cunningham Macaskie|date=12 November 2014}}</ref> was an English barrister who served as the first Chief Justice of North Borneo.<ref name=":2">{{cite web|url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/b06478ec-1c50-3865-8efa-b57f2389c270|accessdate=14 July 2019|title=Papers of Charles Frederick C. Macaskie|website=archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk}}</ref>
== Career == In 1910, Macaskie had remained in the British protectorate of North Borneo after the First World War ended to work as a British government official.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=https://speakofthepast.com/2018/01/24/who-was-my-father/|accessdate=14 August 2019|title=Who was my Father?|date=19 June 2019}}</ref> Between 1934 and 1945, he served as the Chief Justice and Deputy Governor of North Borneo.<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=14 August 2019|url=http://www.kadaiku.com/product/governors-of-british-north-borneo-and-heads-of-state-of-sabah-a-brief-history/|first=Danny Tze-ken|last=Wong|title=GOVERNORS OF BRITISH NORTH BORNEO AND HEADS OF STATE OF SABAH: A Brief History|date=2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GoGwCwAAQBAJ&q=Charles+Frederick+Cunningham+Macaskie&pg=PA201|accessdate=14 August 2019|title=Sources in British Political History 1900-1951: Volume 6: First Consolidated Supplement|date=25 April 1985|first1=P.|last1=Jones|first2=J.|last2=Sinclair|first3=C.|last3=Cook|first4=Jeffrey|last4=Weeks|isbn=9781349178254}}</ref> After the Japanese occupation of British Borneo, Macaskie returned and was appointed chief civil affairs officer for the period 1945-1946 and was later made commissioner for war damage claims for the Borneo Territories between 1947 and 1951.<ref name=":2" />
After he left North Borneo, Macaskie held the position of acting British judge at New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) in 1955, 1958 and 1959.<ref name=":2" />
== Personal life == Macaskie' first marriage was to Maggie Winifred Mary Macaskie (née Bruce), who bore him a son in 1919, Ian Bruce Macaskie. Due to Macaskie' frequent work travels into the interior region of Borneo, his family was often left alone in the capital Jesselton.<ref name=":1" /> In 1922, his wife fell pregnant with a Scottish man's child. Macaskie sent the family back to England to allow Maggie to give birth in more hospitable conditions and agreed to be listed as the child's father.<ref name=":1" /> Later, during one of Macaskie' trip back to Kent, the couple agreed to officially separate and eventually divorced in 1926.<ref name=":1" />
In 1946, Macaskie married Doris Cole-Adams (née Legg).<ref name=":2" />
== Honours == * {{Great Britain}} : ** 50px Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) (1946)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37407/page/9/data.pdf|title=CHANCERY OF THE ORDER OF SAINT MICHAEL AND SAINT GEORGE|date=1 January 1946|accessdate=14 August 2019|publisher=The London Gazette}}</ref>
== See also == * Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak * Governor of North Borneo * North Borneo dispute
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