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Willem Eduard Bok, Jr. (1 January 1880 in Pretoria, South African Republic – 29 October 1956 in Pretoria, Union of South Africa) was a South African lawyer, statesman and judge of Dutch descent.
Willem Eduard Bok Jr. | |
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Justice of the Supreme Court of the Union of South Africa | |
Personal details | |
Born | Pretoria, South African Republic | 1 January 1880
Died | October 29, 1956 76) Pretoria, Union of South Africa | (aged
Spouse | Martina Gerardina Johanna Eekhout |
Relatives | Willem Eduard Bok (father) |
Profession | Lawyer |
Bok studied law in England, before setting up a law practice in his home town of Pretoria. He was the private secretary of general Louis Botha. Later in life Bok became a justice of the Supreme Court of the Union of South Africa.[1]
Bok was the eldest son of Willem Eduard Bok (1846–1904), State Secretary of the South African Republic, and Martina Gerardina Johanna Eekhout (1856–1910).[2]
He married in Pretoria 19 December 1907 with Maria Everdina Jacoba Kleyn (1880–1975), with whom he had four children.[1]
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