[1] His father was Saul Solomon, the influential liberal politician of the Cape Colony.
Saul Solomon was educated at Bedford School and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he was a scholar.
His sister Daisy Solomon was also a suffragette, and 'posted' as a letter to the British Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street in 1909.
[2] Solomon was called to the English Bar by Lincoln's Inn, in 1900, appointed as King's Counsel, in 1919, and as a judge in the Supreme Court of South Africa, between 1927 and 1945.
[3] Mr Justice Solomon died in St James, Cape Town, on 10 December 1960.