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 Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C

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Date transcribed2011-01-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Chambers    
First Name(s)  Sir Charles Harcourt    
Year of Birth  1789    
Year of Death  1828    
Entry  Born Aug. 31, 1789 : nephew of Sir Robert Chambers, (1737-1803), C.J. Bengal (1789-99): educated at Cambridge, Fellow of Trinity College : B.A., 1809 : M.A., 1814 : practised at the bar at the Mayor's Court, Chester, and elsewhere : in 1823 appointed a Puisne Judge of the new Supreme Court, Bombay, opened May 8, 1824 : knighted by Geo. Ill : the Supreme Court, while he was judge, passed severe strictures on the arbitrary proceedings of the executive officers of the E. I. Co., including the magistracy and the police : the Civil Government defied the Court's authority and instructed the Company's officers not to assist the Court's officials : the Court refused to register a stringent Regulation of the Bombay Government against the liberty of the Press: on the death of the Chief Justice, Sir E. West, on Aug. 13, 1828, Chambers acted as C.J., and continued opposing the Government : Lord Ellenborough, as President of the Board of Control, supported the Executive : Chambers, still in opposition, died Oct. 13, 1828, leaving Sir J. P. Grant (q.v.) alone : buried in the Cathedral, Bombay : he wrote, in England, on legal subjects.     
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