Sir Antonio Micallef

Abstract

IT is very right and just- nay, it is a duty-to render praise to whom praise is due: to record and labours and virtues of those of our ancestors who have honoured their country, carrying its name and fame for beyond our native shares; and thus to afford the rising generation luminous examples of moral rectitude, of unwearying industry, of noble and manly sentiments. One of the noblest and worthiest sons of Malta is Sir Antonio Micallef; his life is a model life of probity and learning, honour and modesty. During his seventy nine years of peregrination on this earth which he considered as a stepping-stone to the next, he became the object of universal admiration, esteem and affection. He was an eminent and talented jurist, a warmhearted patriot, a most loving father.