Appeal on the South Africa Court of Appeals in Bloemfontein, South Africa's "judicial capital". He retired in 1945. University of the Witwatersrand In 1938, Feetham was elected Vice Chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He became Chancellor in 1949. He opposed legislation prohibiting the admission of Non-White students to White tertiary institutions. He also played a leading role in the conference between senior members of the Universities of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, which led to publication of the booklet The Open Universities in South Africa (1957). He resigned from the position of Chancellor in 1961 and from the University Council two years later. Service as commissioner Feetham served as an international and local commissioner on a number of high-profile commissions. Feetham Function Committee He was chairman of the Feetham Function Committee on Constitutional Reform in India (1918-1919). Irish Boundary Commission He was Chairman of the Irish Boundary Commission (1924-1925) which decided on the precise delineation of the border between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland following partition in 1921. Lionel Curtis, Lloyd George's main Irish adviser wrote on the appointment of Feetham: "Incomparably the best man I know for his purpose is one Richard Feetham KC, legal adviser to the Governor General of South Africa. He is an English trained Barrister and a member of the South African assembly who has been through all our constitutional work since Milner's time. On my advice Montague sent him out to India as chairman of a committee to prepare a scheme for the decentralization of powers of the central government. In four months he solved a problem over which the Government of India had been struggling with for over 20 years." Despite these glowing references the Boundary Commission's report was completely unacceptable to both Northern Irish and Free State governments, and to Feetham's concern was buried, with neither party even prepared to admit having read it. Kenya Local Government Commission In 1926, he was appointed chairman of a commission to consider the development of local government in Kenya, including the ways in which local government could fund itself. Feetham Report (Shanghai) In 1930, Feetham was appointed by the Shanghai Municipal Council to investigate the possibility of the end of extraterritoriality in China and its effect on the Shanghai International Settlement. At the time, the British Government was engaged in negotiations with the Kuomintang government of China to bring