Yeovil's Virtual Museum

Borough magistrates

From 1853 to 1916, with date of appointment

 

A magistrate is a minor judicial officer, often a civilian volunteer without formal legal training, who serves as a justice of the peace or the judge of a police court, having jurisdiction to try minor criminal cases and to conduct preliminary examinations of persons charged with serious crimes.

The following is a list of prominent Yeovilians who were appointed as Yeovil's Borough Magistrates, together with the date of their appointment, between 1855 and 1916.

 

• John Ryall Mayo, 1855

• Frederick Greenham, 1855

• William Bide, 1855

• Robert Tucker, 1862

• Elias Whitby, 1871

• Henry Bryant Phelps, 1871

• William Fancourt Tomkyns, 1871

• Joseph Chaffey Moore, 1875

• James Curtis, 1875

• Edward Raymond, 1879

• John Curtis, 1879

• Elias Lyndall Whitby, 1888

• William Cox, 1888

• Edwin Helliar, 1888

• William Henry Mayo, 1888

• John Petter, 1888

• John Hill, 1888

• Ptolemy Samuel Henry Colmer, 1892

• Jabez Bradford, 1892

• William Raymond, 1894

• Herbert William Southcombe, 1894

• Robert James Damon, 1897

• James Bazeley Petter, 1897

• John Greenwell Raymond, 1897

• John Howe Farley, 1901

• John Vincent, 1901

• John Kerby Whitby, 1901

• Alfred Ernest Bradford, 1906

• George Henry Gould, 1906

• William Walter Johnson, 1906

• Charles Wreford Pittard, 1906

• Henry Stiby, 1906

• Edward Raymond Chaffey, 1916

• Edmund Damon, 1916

• Frank Whitmash Mayo, 1916

• Jabez Matthews, 1916

• William McMillan, 1916

• Percival Waddams Petter, 1916

• Henry Tavener, 1916