NameGeneva [BRINTON] 3343
Spouses
Birth Date1878
Birth PlacePhiladelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA, USA
Death Date19733339
OccupationLawyer, Judge
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania
FatherJohn Hill BRINTON (1832-1907)
Misc. Notes
Jasper Yeates Brinton, lawyer and judge, was born in Philadelphia in 1878, an imaginative experiment in international justice known as the Mixed Courts of Egypt was already two years underway. But it was more than 40 years before the two got together.

In 1921, after graduating from Pennsylvania Law School, serving as lieutenant colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Department and as a member of an American investigatory mission to troubled Armenia, Judge Brinton was nominated by President Harding to be an American representative to Egypt's Mixed Courts. When he sailed for Alexandria to join the courts—by then a much acclaimed success—he didn't realize that he was starting not only another distinguished career, but a brand new life. Judge Brinton was to serve Egypt for the next 27 years, first as a justice, then from 1943 until 1948, as president of the court. He was later, until 1953, legal adviser to the American Embassy in Cairo....

Judge Brinton, who with his wife, Geneva, continues to live in Cairo and receive a pension from the Egyptian government, is Honorary Vice President of the Egyptian Society of International Law, which he founded. He has received honorary degrees as Doctor of Laws from Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, and from his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania. His scholarly and readable history of the Mixed Courts [of Egypt], first published in 1930, has recently been published in a revised edition by the Yale University Press.

An ancestor of Judge Brinton’s, Dr. William Smith, was the first provost of the University of Pennsylvania and at one time a friend and stalwart of Benjamin Franklin. See also 3342
Family ID5378
Last Modified 24 Jun 2016Created 17 May 2017 Rick Gleason - ricksgenealogy@gmail.com