Pretoria foundations
The practice becomes part of Pretoria’s early legal profession, with offices near the Old Raadsaal and Church Square around the turn of the century.
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A Pretoria legal story spanning generations.
The firm’s own history traces its beginnings to Hudson Findlay’s Pretoria practice around 1892, through partnerships, war, successive generations and the present-day practice.
c. 1892
Where the story begins.
Hudson Findlay came to Pretoria from the Cape Province and opened an attorneys practice under the name J H L Findlay. In the years that followed, the practice evolved through partnerships that included Charles James Rice, N J Macrobert and Gustav Niemeyer.
A period of unusual continuity
During the Anglo Boer War, Hudson Findlay locked the office and left for the Cape. The firm’s published history records that on his return after the war, he reopened the premises and found the office dusty—but otherwise untouched.
The present name endures
After N J Macrobert left to establish another practice, Findlay continued under the firm’s present Findlay & Niemeyer name.
Successive generations
Owen Price and later John Price continued the practice through much of the 20th century, extending the firm’s family-linked legal heritage.