List of Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Bombay

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This is a list of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Bombay. It was in existence from 1824 to 1862, when the Bombay High Court was founded. The role of the judges of the court was to defend, on behalf of the British Crown, the interests of the people of Bombay against the East India Company. [1]

Bombay High Court High Court of Judicature at Mumbai

Bombay High Court is one of the oldest High Courts of India. It is located in Bombay, Maharashtra. Its jurisdiction covers the states of Maharashtra and Goa, and the Union Territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. The High Court has regional branches at Nagpur and Aurangabad in Maharashtra and Panaji, the capital of Goa.

East India Company 16th through 19th-century British trading company

The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, Company Bahadur, or simply The Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with Mughal India and the East Indies, and later with Qing China. The company ended up seizing control over large parts of the Indian subcontinent, colonised parts of Southeast Asia, and colonised Hong Kong after a war with Qing China.

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The Supreme Court was preceded by the Recorder's Court, established in 1798. [2]

Recorders of Bombay

Took officeChief JusticeNotes
1798Sir William Syer [3] Died 1802
1803Sir James Mackintosh [4]
1811Sir John Henry Newbolt
1812Sir Alexander Anstruther [4] Died 1819
1820Sir D. Evans [4] Died 1821
1822Sir Edward West [4] Became Chief Justice of Supreme Court, 1823

Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Bombay

Took officeChief JusticeNotes
1823Sir Edward West [5] [2] first year was in the Recorder's Court
1829Sir James Dewar [5]
1831Sir Herbert Abingdon Draper Compton [5]
1839Sir John Wither Awdry [5]
1840Sir Henry Roper [5]
1846Sir David Pollock [5]
1847Sir Thomas Erskine Perry [5]
1852Sir William Yardley [2]
1859Sir Matthew Richard Sausse [2] became Bombay High Court Chief Judge in 1862

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Berg, Maxine L. "West, Edward". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29079.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. 1 2 3 4 J. HIGGINBOTHAM (1862). The Bombay Miscellany. p. 640. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  3. ↑ The Asiatic annual register, or: View of the history of Hindustan ..., Volume 1
  4. 1 2 3 4 Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 31
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Joseph Haydn (1851). The Book of Dignities: Containing Lists of the Official Personages of the British Empire. Longmans, Brown, Green and Longmans. p. 272. Retrieved 23 September 2013.

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