Walter Huggard

Sir Walter Clarence Huggard QC (d. 21 June 1957) was a British barrister, acting High Commissioner for the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland and Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements.

Sir Walter was educated at Methodist College Belfast and Trinity College Dublin where he was First Honourman and Senior Moderator in Legal and Political Science.

[2] In 1914 he became a magistrate in Nigeria and in 1920 was appointed Solicitor General for Trinidad and Tobago.

[6] He was succeeded as Attorney General of the Straits Settlements by Percy McElwaine.

[10] In 1938, 1940, 1942, 1945 and 1946 he fulfilled the role of acting High Commissioner for the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland[11] In 1948 he retired.