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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Norton    
First Name(s)  John Bruce    
Birth Year  1815    
Death Year  1883    
Entry  Son of Sir John David Norton, Puisne Judge of the Madras Supreme Court : born July 8, 1815 : educated at Harrow, and Merton College, Oxford : Scholar : played in the Harrow cricket Eleven in 1832-3 : called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1841 : to India, 1842 : Sheriff of Madras, 1843-5 : Clerk of the Crown, 1845-62 : Government Pleader : Advocate- General, 1863-71 : Member of the Legislative Council, Madras : Fellow and Law Lecturer of the Madras University : was an ardent advocate and supporter of native interests and education : Patron of Pachaiyappa's school at Madras : appointed, in 1873, the first lecturer on Law to Indian students at the Temple, London : died July 13, 1883 : wrote on The Law of Evidence, etc., 1858 : and chiefly on legal subjects : also The Rebellion in India : how to prevent another 1857 ; Topics for Indian Statesmen, 1858 : Nemesis, a Poem, and other books of verse.     
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