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'''Sir Arthur Wilson''', <small>[[Order of the Indian Empire|KCIE]], [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]]</small>, (1837 |
'''Sir Arthur Wilson''', <small>[[Order of the Indian Empire|KCIE]], [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]]</small>, (1837 &ndash 1915) was an English lawyer and judge. He served as a judge of the [[High Court of Calcutta]], and was later a member of the [[Judicial Committee of the Privy Council]]. |
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Wilson was
[[called to the Bar]] by the [[Inner Temple]] in 1862 and rapidly advanced in the profession. One judge of the English High Court, Lord Justice Mathew, said that Wilson would certainly have been raised to the bench in Britain, had he
not accepted an appointment to the [[High Court of Calcutta]] in 1878 (at that time, known as the High Court of Judicature, Fort Williams, Bengal).<ref>''[[The Edinburgh Gazette]]'', [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/8919/page/597 no. 8919, p. 597, 6 August 1878]</ref><ref name="Times">''The Times'', December 29, 1915.</ref> |
Wilson was
[[called to the Bar]] by the [[Inner Temple]] in 1862 and rapidly advanced in the profession. One judge of the English High Court, Lord Justice Mathew, said that Wilson would certainly have been raised to the bench in Britain, had he
not accepted an appointment to the [[High Court of Calcutta]] in 1878 (at that time, known as the High Court of Judicature, Fort Williams, Bengal).<ref>''[[The Edinburgh Gazette]]'', [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/8919/page/597 no. 8919, p. 597, 6 August 1878]</ref><ref name="Times">''The Times'', December 29, 1915.</ref> |
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Wilson died on December 28, 1915, at the Moorings, Heathside, [[Woking]].<ref name="Times" /> |
Wilson died on December 28, 1915, at the Moorings, Heathside, [[Woking]].<ref name="Times" /> |
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Revision as of 20:18, 22 May 2014
Sir Arthur Wilson, KCIE, PC, (1837 &ndash 1915) was an English lawyer and judge. He served as a judge of the High Court of Calcutta, and was later a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
Wilson was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1862 and rapidly advanced in the profession. One judge of the English High Court, Lord Justice Mathew, said that Wilson would certainly have been raised to the bench in Britain, had he not accepted an appointment to the High Court of Calcutta in 1878 (at that time, known as the High Court of Judicature, Fort Williams, Bengal).[1][2]
In 1880, Wilson was elected Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta, a position he held until 1884.
In 1888-89, Wilson was president of a Commission of Inquiry which sat at Poona, to investigate corruption allegations which had been made against Arthur Crawford, the Commissioner of Central Division of the Bombay Presidency. The hearings attracted considerable public attention in both India and Britain. After lengthy hearings and sixty-seven public sittings, the Commission found Crawford not guilty of the more serious charges of taking bribes, but guilty of borrowing money from his Indian subordinates.[2]
In 1892, Wilson resigned his position on the Calcutta High Court[3] and returned to Britain. He was appointed Legal Adviser and Solicitor to the Indian Office, and in 1898 was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire.[4]
In 1902, Wilson was sworn a member of the Privy Council and took his place on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council,[5] at that time the highest court for the Empire. By that time, he was physically weak, having trouble even walking across the room at committee meetings, but he retained his intellectual vigour.[2] He sat on the Judicial Committee for nine years, retiring in 1911.[6]
Wilson had a family of two sons and one daughter. Both sons were in the Army. One of them was drowned while crossing a river in India, and the other was killed campaigning in South Africa. [2]
Wilson died on December 28, 1915, at the Moorings, Heathside, Woking.[2]
References
- ^ The Edinburgh Gazette, no. 8919, p. 597, 6 August 1878
- ^ a b c d e The Times, December 29, 1915.
- ^ The London Gazette, no.26287, p. 2829, 13 May 1892
- ^ The London Gazette, no. 26925, p. 1, 1 January 1898
- ^ The London Gazette, no. 27414, p. 1615, 17 March 1902.
- ^ The Times, 22 June, 1911
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