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Dictionary of Indian Biography M to R
Date transcribed | 2011-08-00 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work. |
| Surname | Norman | | First Name(s) | John Paxton | | Birth Year | 1819 | | Death Year | 1871 | | Entry | Son of John Norman, a Somersetshire banker : born Oct. 21, 1819 : educated at Exeter Grammar School, and Exeter College, Oxford : practised as a special pleader : called to the bar at the Inner Temple, 1862 : was a Puisne Judge of the Calcutta Supreme Court, 1862-71, officiating as Chief Justice in 1864-5, and again in 1870-1 : he was attacked and mortally wounded by an assassin as he was ascending the steps of the Town Hall, Calcutta, on his way to his Court (which was temporarily being held there), and died of his wounds early the next morning, Sep. 21, 1871. The murderer, Abdulla, a Panjabi, gave no intelligible account of his motives. Norman was the most popular of men, always accessible to natives, and very kindly disposed towards them, and intended to retire soon : he was a sound lawyer : the author, in England, of many legal treatises and papers, and the editor of law reports. He took an active part in the Calcutta University as President of the Faculty of Law. A monument was erected to him by the Government in St. Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta. |
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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