| Intro | South African lawyer and judge |
| Is | Judge |
| From | South Africa |
| Type | Law |
| Gender | male |
| Birth |
Pretoria |
| Death |
29 October 1956, Pretoria |
Willem Eduard Bok, Jr., (Pretoria, South African Republic 1 January 1880 – Pretoria, Union of South Africa, 29 October 1956) was a South African lawyer, statesman and judge of Dutch descent.
Biography
Career
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 in the Supreme Court of the Union of South Africa.
Family
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).
He married in Pretoria 19 December 1907 with Maria Everdina Jacoba Kleyn (1880-1975), with whom he had four children.