He practised on the South Eastern Circuit and served as an arbitrator on the London Chamber of Arbitration and as an examiner of the High Court. In 1899, he was appointed President of the District Court of Larnaca. After 12 years in Cyprus, he was transferred as Police Magistrate to Gibraltar, before being transferred again in 1913 to be a Puisne Judge in Mauritius. In 1916, he was promoted to Chief Justice of Grenada. In 1921, he went to Palestine to serve as the first British Chief Justice of Palestine. He retired in 1927 and died in Surrey in 1936.[3]
In 1891, he married Pauline Richard, daughter of Captain Paul Richard of the French Imperial Guard. They had one son, Brigadier Thomas Wagstaffe Richard Haycraft.[3]
References
^Sachar, Howard A. A History of Israel from Zionism to the Present. Second Edition. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996) p. 125
^Daniel Monk. An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestinian Conflict - Terrible Episodes. (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2002) p. 156
^ abc"Obituary: Sir Thomas Haycraft – First Chief Justice of Palestine". The Times. 18 July 1936. p. 14.