Claim: Gerald Sparrow, who opposed the sporting boycott of South Africa in 1974, became a judge on the International Court at age 26 or 27 and also wrote over 40 books which are mostly about travel.
Evidence: Sparrow opposed the sporting boycott of South Africa in 1974. He was also the author of "over 40 books, mostly about travel". Sparrow practised as a barrister in Manchester in the mid-1920s, then (invited by the Crown Prince) emigrated to Siam (now Thailand), where he was appointed, in 1930 and aged only 26 or 27, as a judge on the International Court (which tried cases involving non-Thais) in Bangkok.