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52 S. African L.J. 1 (1935)
The Honourable Mr. Justice Alfred Whaley Cole

handle is hein.journals/soaf52 and id is 27 raw text is: SOUTH AFRICAN LAW JOURNAL. THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ALFRED WHALEY COLE. A Cape South-Easter can be held responsible for the Bu- chanan legal talent in South Africa, but it was a raging North- Wester which first caused the late Mr. Justice Alfred Whaley Cole to take root in this country. Judge Cole had one of the most interesting and romantic careers of all our legal luminaries, and though he steadfastly refused elevation to the Bench until late in life, he had a long and eminent record in South Africa. As a young man he was apparently excep- tionally wild and fond of adventure. As a boy of nineteen he had estranged his relatives with his escapades and in March, 1841, he set sail in the Prince Rupert, an emigrant ship, bound for New Zealand. As he afterwards wrote : I had no weeping relatives around me, nor had I left any behind me : no fair one to hold my heart captive in England while I was fleeing bodily away: no ruined fortunes to lament over: no vast amount of amor patriae to overcome. The truth was I was leaving England because I felt I was de trop in a country where every profession was over-stocked and where I, a young man, without fortune or friends stood very little chance of fighting the battle of life with any glorious result to myself.(') After a voyage full of incident the Prince Rupert put into Table Bay for provisions, on 4th September, 1841, and late that night a north-west gale arose and drove the unfortunate craft on to the rocks off Green Point. After hours of suffering all but five were rescued and young Cole found himself aboard an East Indiaman anchored in the Bay. Next morning he was put ashore, friendless, with all his possessions deep in the bossom of the ocean. The other passengers found (1) The Cape and the Kaffirs, by A. W. Cole.

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