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Andries was a well known Cape Politian, Advocate and Supreme Court Judge. He studied law at the University of London and obtained his B.A. in 1869. In 1871 he became a Barrister. In 1874 he became a member of the Cape Legislature Assembly and held this position for four years. In 1878 he became the Solicitor General of the cape Colony and held this position until 1896 and became a member of the Queens Council in 1890.
From 1897 to to 1899 he was in the Transvaal and resigned when he had a dispute with President Paul Kruger.
In 1902 he became the Chief Justice of the Orange River Colony and was knighted in 1904 for service to South Africa. During this time in the Justice Department he drafted many Acts of Parliament.
In Spetember 1918 Sir and Lady Maasdorp were residing at Myrlewood, Bloemfontein.
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• Education. Andries Maasdorp, who was educated at Graaff-Reinet Coll. and at Univ. Coll., London (B.A. London Univ. 1869.)
• General Comment. MAASDORP, the Hon. Sir Andies Ferdinand Stockenstrom, Knt.^ \emdash Cr. 1904.
Second son of the late Gysbert Henry Maasdorp, Esq., M.D.,of Graaff-Reinet,Cape Colony, by Maria Andrietta Hartzenberg, who d. 1888 ; b. 1847; ot. 1880 Agnes, dau.of John Hayton, Esq., of Grahamtown, S. Africa.
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Maasdorp, Sir Antilles Ferdinand(us) Stockenstrom (*Malmesbury, 14.1.1847 - †Rondebosch, Cape, 18.3.1931), Cape politician, advocate and judge, was descended from an old Cape family of German extraction (Matzdorf), the first South African ancestor of which arrived at the Cape in 1697 in the employ of the V.O.C. M. was the second of the five sons of Dr Gysbert Henry Maasdorp (†1888) and his wife, Anna Maria Hartzenberg. His eldest brother was Gysbert Henry Maasdorp, member of the Cape legislative assembly for Graaff-Reinet (1904-10); the third brother was Judge Christiaan George Maasdorp;....... the youngest, Charles Hermanus Maasdorp (*1851), was a legal adviser to the C.G.R. From 1851 the family lived at Graaff-Reinet, where M.'s father was a prominent medical practitioner for forty years.
M. was educated at the grammar school (subsequently the government school) at Graaff-Reinet. As an outstanding pupil he was awarded a gold medal in 1865 by the Cape board of examiners in their examination, the so-called 'competition of schools', coming first in mathematics and classics. He subsequently studied at Graaff-Reinet college and at University college, Lon-don, where he obtained a B.A. in 1869.
On 1711.1871 he was admitted to the Inner Temple as barrister, and from March 1872 practised at the Cape bar. He represented Graaff-Reinet in the Cape legislative assembly (1874 - 78), where, at the time of the confederation issue, he played an active part as the unofficial whip of the 'confederate' group. On 4.9.1878 he was appointed as solicitor-general of the eastern districts of the Cape Colony, a position he held with distinction at Grahamstown until 1896. In the meantime he had become a senior advocate (Q.C) in 1890. Next he moved to Pretoria, where he practised at the bar (1897-99). In the dispute between Pres. S. J. P. Kruger....... and the chief justice, J. G. Kotzé,....... in 1897, he threw in his lot with the chief justice.
Owing to illness in his family M. returned to the Cape Colony shortly before the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War and once again practised at Grahamstown. From October 1900 to June 1902 he was a member of the special (treason) court which tried those who had been colonial rebels during the war. In 1902 he became chief justice of the Orange River Colony (later becoming judge-president of the Orange Free State provincial division of the supreme court of South Africa). He was knighted (K.B.) in 1904. On 142.1910 he was elected the first chairman of the council of the Grey university college, Bloemfontein. He retired from the bench at the end of 1919. In 1880 he married Agnes Hayton, daughter of John Hayton, of Grahamstown. They had three sons.
M. was talented; he had a strong personality and was friendly and genial. He was an able advocate, a master in the art of cross-examination; as a judge he was keen-witted, enjoying an extraordinary ability of grasping the facts and the crux of a legal problem with rapidity. As an author he was a pioneer of present-day Roman Dutch law, with a comprehensive and penetrating knowledge of common law.
His legal publications began with his appointment in Grahamstown for the first time. He published an English translation of Hugo de Groot's (Grotius's) Inleydinghe tot de Hollandsche rechts-geleertheyt, which appeared under the and subsequently taught at The Hague (where he learned Dutch) and at a Quaker school in Kendal, Westmoreland, where a religious experience determined his career. In 1856 he entered the seminary of the Paris Evangelical mission society, and three years later he married Adele Casalis, was ordained, and sailed for Basutoland.
M. reached his destination in January 1860, was welcomed by Moshweshwe, and assigned to Morija where he remained until his death. Three times he rebuilt this station, initially after the first war between the Basuto and the O.F.S. (1858), secondly after the war of 1865-68, and finally after the 'War of the Guns' between the Cape Colony and the Basuto in 1880-81. Immediately re-opening the schools after each catastrophe, he worked assiduously for his ideal, the training of indigenous teachers, evangelists and, eventually, ministers.}
Under the O.F.S. ban (February 1866) on French missionaries, he was expelled to Aliwal North, but after three months he moved to Berea, and then to Thaba Bosigo. Before the conclusion of the war, and while still under the ban, he returned to Morija in 1868 to institute the normal school. Five years later he founded the preparatory school, which developed into the Bible school, and in 1882 he established the theological school.
He initiated the synod, which met four times between 1872 and 1879, and then lapsed until it was revived in 1894. He was adamant in his refusal to approve of bohali ('bride-price) and to admit polygamists to the church, although his attitude almost caused crises in the church in 1879 and 1886; and he restated his views at a meeting of all missionaries, called by Letsie in 1888, to discuss these questions. M. established many out-stations, and in May 1873 he travelled with Paul Berthoud to the northern Transvaal, a journey which resulted in the foundation there of the Swiss mission. He was also instrumental in the establishment of the Zambezi mission by Francois Coillard in 1877. During the wars with the Orange Free State he upheld Moshweshwe, making representations for British protection, which was achieved with the annexation of Basutoland in March 1868. In 1870 he became adviser on external affairs to Letsie, Moshweshwe's son and successor. Before the 'War of the Guns' he opposed the immediate disarming of the Basuto, and, while absent in Europe and America (1880-82), he wrote voluminously and interviewed influential authorities, pleading the Basuto cause, though throughout he enjoined the chiefs to obey the law. His biographer, Dieterlen, writing in 1898 remarks that M. was undoubtedly the last 'political missionary' in Basutoland. Beginning with a small press in September 1863, M. began the publication of Leselinyana la Lesuto ('The little light of Basutoland'), the oldest existing vernacular newspaper in South Africa. The main press was moved to Morija in 1875, when the book depot was established; both concerns flourished under his direction, and he trained printing apprentices while producing text-books, government publications and private works. In 1882 he installed a new press and increased the number of learner printers. During his last years anxiety about mission finances was mingled with delight when five of his children, Louis, Ernest, Florence, Aline and Eugenie, joined the Basuto mission; Marie married in England.
M. was an indefatigable worker, a man of fearless courage, a passionate evangelist, a great scholar, austere but tender-hearted. When, in harness, he died of peritonitis, he was worn out with overwork. He lies buried in the cemetery at Morija.
His numerous publications include translations and grammatical and lexicographical studies, several of which have seen many reprints and revised editions: Loeto la Mokreste (The Pilgrim's progress, by John Bunyan), translated 1864, first published at Lovedale, 1872; Bophelo ba kereke ea Jesu Kereste ('The life of the church of Jesus Christ'), 1872; Litaba tsa kabelo e lsuanelang balumeli ('Contributions appropriate to Christians'), 1875; Sesuto-English vocabulary: Mantsue a Sesotho lo tlalosetso ea 'ono ka senglish, Morija, 1876, repeatedly revised, enlarged and reprinted, the latest revision by R. A. Paroz (Southern Sotho-English dictionary, 1961) now constituting the standard reference work; Lifela le linoto tsa tsona 'ona ('Hymns and their tunes'), in Curwen's tonic sol-fa, 1877; Pina tsa dikoele tse phahameng ('Songs for senior schools'), 1877; Phuthollo ea mantsoe le mabitso a Bibele ('Explanation of the words and names of the Bible'; a translation of A. Meylan's work), 1877; Katekisma ea Bibele (Bible catechism), n.d.; Helps for to learn the Sesuto language, Morija, 1878, an unpretentious work which nevertheless prepared the way for subsequent grammarians; a Sesuto translation of the Old Testament, and revision of Casalis's and Rolland's translation of the New Testament for the edition of the Bible in Sesuto, 1881; English-Sesuto vocabulary, incorporated in the second edition of Sesuto-English vocabulary, 1894; Matsohlo a lentsoe le halalelang Testamente ea Khale ('Selections from the Holy Word of the Old Testament'), 1882; Matsohlo a lentsoe le halalelang la Modimo ('Selections from the Holy Word of God'), 1882; Motsualle oa babolali ba likolo (The school evangelist's friend), 1889; Mantsue a go buisana ka Sesotho le Se-English ('A Sotho and English phrase-book'), 1891, later revised as Puisano ea Sesotho le Se-English.
There are portraits of M. in the Livre d'or (infra), in the biographies by Dieterlen and Smith and in J. Siorder's biography of Adèle Mabille.
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• Occupation. MAASDORP, the Hon. Sir Andies Ferdinand Stockenstrom, Knt.^ \emdash Cr. 1904.
Second son of the late Gysbert Henry Maasdorp, Esq., M.D.,of Graaff-Reinet,Cape Colony, byMariaAndrietta
Hartzenberg, who d. 1888 ; b. 1847; ot. 1880 Agnes, dau.of John Hayton, Esq., of Graharastown, S. Africa. Sir
Andries Maasdorp, was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple 1871. He was a member of the Cape House of Assembly 1874-8 ; Solicitor-Gen. of Cape Colony 1878-97 and a Member of the Special Treason Court 1900-2 ; appointed Chief
Justice of the Oranje River Colony (Free State Provincial Div. of the Supreme Court of the Union of S.Africa 1910) 1902.\emdash Supreme Court, Bloemfontein S. Africa.
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• Children. 7 They had 5 children.
Andries married Agnes Catherine Thompson Hayton, daughter of John Hayton and Rhoda Weakley, in Sep 1880 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. (Agnes Catherine Thompson Hayton was born on 18 Oct 1859 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa, christened on 19 Mar 1860 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa, died on 28 Jul 1950 in Kenilworth, Cape Province, South Africa 24 and was buried in Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa.)
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