Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Jacob William Barth CBE (23 July 1871 – 30 May 1941) was a British lawyer who served as the Attorney General of the East Africa Protectorate and Chief Justice of Kenya.
[1] He attended Battersea Grammar School and matriculated from Wadham College, Oxford in 1890.
[2] Barth was admitted to Middle Temple and called to the bar on 27 June 1900.
[4] In 1920, he was appointed Chief Justice of Kenya and remained in the post until he retired in 1934.
[5] He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1916 and Knight Bachelor in 1922.