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Egidius Benedictus Watermeyer (21 August 1824 - 21 September 1867), informally known simply as "Ben", was a Judge and a founding Member of the Cape Legislative Assembly.〔Watermeyer: ''Selections from the writings of the late E.B. Watermeyer, with a brief sketch of his life.'' Cape Town : Juta. 1877.〕 ==Early life== Ben Watermeyer was born into a Cape family of German ancestry (his grandfather was originally from Hamburg). He was the second son of Frederick Stephanus Watermeyer Snr (1797-1847), and Anna Maria Ziervogel. He was a quiet and studious child, who even as a small child was able to correspond with his older brother in Classical Greek. He read law, went to study Civil Law in the Netherlands in 1841, and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in London in 1847. In the same year in 1847, he returned to the Cape Colony and was admitted as an Advocate at the Supreme Court. An un-ostentatious but extremely hard-working man, Watermeyer partook in most of the important cases in the late 1840s and gained an extremely detailed knowledge of southern Africa by working the circuit courts. He married Johanna Catharina Henrietta Reitz (niece of Frederick William Reitz Snr.) The marriage was childless but exceptionally happy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Egidius Benedictus Watermeyer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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