SirJohn William Fisher Beaumont, QC, PC (4 September 1877 - 8 February 1974) was the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court. [1]
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SirJohn William Fisher Beaumont, QC, PC (4 September 1877 - 8 February 1974) was the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court. [1]
Beaumont was born in St Pancras, London in 1877. His father Edward Beaumont was also Bar-at-law. He was educated at Winchester College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. [2] Beaumont passed B.A. with First Class in 1899 and received a scholarship. In 1901, he was called to the Bar by the Lincoln's Inn. [3]
After Sir Amberson Barrington Marten, Beaumont became the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court in 1930 and was in office till 1943, thus held that office for the longest period in the history of the High Court. [3] He was knighted in 1931 [4] and was several times called upon to act temporarily as a judge of the Federal Court of India. Beaumont worked there from 1942 to 1943. He was also appointed a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.[ citation needed ]
He died in 1974 and was buried on the west side of Highgate Cemetery.
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