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60 S. African L.J. 125 (1943)
Harold Graham Mackeurtan: An Appreciation

handle is hein.journals/soaf60 and id is 149 raw text is: SOUTH AFRICAN LAW JOURNAL. HAROLD GRAHAM MACKEURTAN- AN APPRECIATION. Graham Mackeurtan! What memories that name recalls! He was vir amplissimus * indeed; big in body, big in mind, big in everything. But I must begin at the beginning. He was born at Durban on 26th February, 1884. His parents were George and Nell Mackeurtan (born Birt). Both are dead. George Mackeurtan, who was, of course, a Scots- man, was originally a banker, but he became an accountant when he was over fifty and founded the well-known Durban- firm of Geo. Mackeurtan, Son and Crosoer. Mrs. George Mackeurtan, O.B.E., was a very talented woman and was a leading figure in Durban society for many years. Her family were 1820 Settlers. Mr. and Mrs. Mackeurtan sent their son to Durban High School in 1892, when he was eight years old. He left in 1901, when he was seventeen. He won many prizes, and, having passed the Oxford Junior examina- tion at the age of twelve, he obtained a first class in the matriculation examination at the age of fifteen. He came first in South Africa in the Cape Intermediate examination in 1901 'and he ended his school career by winning the Natal Government Exhibition. It was worth £150 a year and was tenable for four years. it enabled him to go to Cambridge. Unfortunately, the Exhibition lapsed at Union, although it had produced a senior wraiigler, long before Mackeurtan's time. Mackeurtan kept wicket for the school and played back in the football eleven, the school game in those days being Soccer. His intellect and character, as a schoolboy, * This extraordinarily apt description is borrowed from T. B. Horwood's dedication to Mackeurtan of the translation of Voet, Book XXII.

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