Ernest Frederick Watermeyer, PC, QC (12 October 1880 – 18 January 1958), was the Chief Justice of South Africa from 1943 to 1950.
From 1922 to 1937, he was a judge of the Cape Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa.
In 1943, he was appointed Chief Justice of South Africa and was sworn of the Privy Council the same year, the last Chief Justice of South Africa to be made a Privy Counsellor.
[2] He served as Officer Administering the Government of the Union of South Africa in 1950, and retired the same year.
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